Quotes About Experience

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councilor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

Memory revises me.

Memory is sweet. Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

Then you'll remember your life as a book of candles, each page read by the light of its own burning.

The earth is flat. Those who fall off don't return. The earth is round. All things reveal themselves to men only gradually. I

Which is this? This is persimmons, Father. Oh, the feel of the wolftail on the silk, the strength, the tense precision in the wrist. I painted them hundreds of times eye's closed. These I painted blind. Some things never leave a person: scent of hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

It's important to live a complicated life.

There are some guys you date who are so bad that when you tell the story about them, it reflects just as badly on you as it does on them.

does one start believing in love? How do you turn off your brain and everything you've seen and heard in the past twenty years?

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bonafide workplace apart from a classroom, and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and under appreciated.

Schoolteachers were smart, educated, accustomed to hard work, unused to high pay, simultaneously youthful and mature, and

Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

The journey is the treasure.

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.