Quotes About Experience

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary's. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It's pretty cool.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

I shot 'Poppin' in L.A. because I love L.A. Because when I came out here, I fell in love with it.

I'm a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.

Ive been an opening act for pretty much as long as Ive been out here doing this, so to be able to go out and be a headliner is an adjustment for me.

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

I enjoy challenging myself to try new things, going outdoors, scuba diving, running a marathon. Anything that I have never done before, I enjoy trying it out.

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

I was a good fielder in the gully in my college days. But in the outfield, I was not such a good fielder.

I grew up playing in the outfield and junior year of high school I went over to first base and got some tidbits from my dad, but it kind of came naturally to me.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Shopping in Mumbai is always an outing with friends.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.