Quotes About Experience

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

Live the beauty or your own reality.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.