Quotes About Experience

c'est que je continue à les porter. Je les enlève avant

What is it to inhabit a world? How does one make the world one's own? What is it to lose one's world?

It is better not to have taken on the weight of a man or woman who has seen many winters, winters that rob the eyes of their strength.

This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.

The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature.

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?

He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man or boy, as older or younger, taller or shorter than I am, but always of him as a mind in tune with mine, in which many of the notes are quite different from mine but are all in the same key.

Love, for her, was something to be gloried in and acknowledged; like so many others, she had not seen enough of the War at first hand to realise how quickly romance was being replaced by bitterness and pessimism in all the young lovers whom 1914 had caught at the end of their teens.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalise so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth - that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every set-back insuperable?

I said that I had never experienced a love-pinch and on a wave of amusement Kiser said, "Then you got that to look forward to. I don't know, though. That Yancey fella don't look very playful to me and Gaither's not a very forward boy so maybe you'll just have to skip that part of your life.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.

Limit love and you limit life.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

A person without a rich and complex past is like an infant, who has no ability to interpret any text.

Call it Talent Development, Human Relations, People Support, or Head of People Experiences — whatever term fits your culture — choose to call this function anything but Human Resources.

That's why it is good to remind ourselves that in business and in life, the journey, not the destination, is the reward.

She remembered reading somewhere that although the body ages and weakens, and the mind grows older and sometimes slower too, the human spirit never ages. When we age we may have difficulty in climbing stairs or leaping over fences, and our memories may not be quite as sharp as they were at 14, but we still feel the same inside as we felt when we were young and were just setting out on the great adventure which is life.

The young sometimes find it uncomfortable to accept that wrinkly and slightly wobbly old folk may be just as bright as they are and this is perhaps because they realise that when intelligence is added to wisdom gained through experience, the sum of the two is considerably more potent than the one alone.

When a truly mature man has sex with a woman it is the same with him as if he had lunch with her. Afterward he casually remarks to the woman, "That was very nice"---while referring to either the sex or the salad.

Smith strongly emphasizes that it is a fallacy to believe that our original moral perceptions of conduct are based on reason, even in those cases where general rules grow directly out of our experience and become an emergent order. These perceptions and the experience on which rules are founded are a consequence of our minds but not of reasoned thoughts: