Quotes About Experience

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever?

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.