Quotes About Experience

The mouth of an old man may smell but the advice coming form it is sweet.

The only mistake I really don't make is that I never make the same mistake again.

The problem of life can be solved only by living.

The trouble with life is that by the time you know how to play the game, you are too old to make the team.

There is a first time for everything and last for nothing.

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life— this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

there is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

Religious experiences are meaningless unless they are accompanied by verbal communication that carry intelligible content.

Christians are often ridiculed by friends or coworkers when they seem to lack knowledge or experience in secular and sinful activities.

I have fought sixty battles, and I assure you that I have learned nothing from all of them that I did not know in the first.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

The text we fall in love with is the one in which we never cease to learn what we already knew.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.