Quotes About Experience

Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment." TARA DANIELS

sometimes adulthood felt like the vet's office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.

Fact was, she just wasn't that same person anymore. Her remaining scar was a reminder of that, like an ex-smoker who kept a pack of cigarettes somewhere as proof she was stronger than that. It was a badge of honor and a marker place for where she was in her life right now. And as it turned out, memories—the good, the bad, and the ugly—really were what made a person.

I'll have you know, I actually got a speeding ticket last year. 'For driving under the speed limit?

Sometimes, something so beautiful happens, you can't process it and it builds up inside so big, you can't do anything but cry.

There are people my age competing at the Olympics and I still try to enter Walmart through the exit-only door.

Life is not about perfection. It's about progress. And progress only comes with age.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....

You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

if you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you. If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring

I'm... I felt a little ill. You're saying... I'm pregnant? My double threw up his arms. Finally, he gets it. In years and years and years of experience as a wizard, I'd dealt with concepts, formulae, and mental models that ranged from bizarre to downright insanity-inducing. None of them had, in any way whatsoever, ever prepared my head to wrap around this. At all. Ever.

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless.

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise. But that time was pretty much in the past.

The only people who never hurt are dead.

There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you.

When it gets here, we'll run out and dance in it," I said. "Why?" Maggie asked. "If we don't, life has just as much rain," I said, "but way less dancing.