Quotes About Experience

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

relentless practice creates a database of experience that you can draw upon to make more enlightened choices.

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

We don't drink to forget. We drink to remember.

Zeg nooit: ik heb mij zitten vervelen. Zeg: verveling maakte een relevant onderdeel uit van de opgeroepen emoties.

Zeg nooit: ik heb gisteren een goed toneelstuk gezien. Zeg: ik was gisteren getuige van een relevante toneelervaring.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Life is a piano what you get out of it depends on how you play it

We require experience to stay ahead, if only by a nose, of our consciousness of experience—if for no other reason than that the latter needs to make sense of the former, to (as Peyman would say) narrate it both to others and ourselves, and, for this purpose, has to be fed with a constant, unsorted supply of fresh sensations and events.

For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.

the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

People come, people go Some grow young, some grow cold I woke up in between A memory and a dream So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint Let's head on down the road There's somewhere I gotta go And you don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me

fifty years later, part of the film's continued appeal lies in the fact that the mere mention of the title conjures up audience members' memories of watching the film for the first time. It's not just the film itself that is remembered, but the remembrance of watching it as a child.

Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.