Quotes About Experience

Maybe the best way to do something really innovative is to hire a bunch of young people who have no experience and therefore no preconceived notions about how to run a company.

Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

I've heard that Richard Branson will not invest in any company unless the person in charge has failed at least twice.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

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.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

In art, you can find voices that channel your own life story better than you could ever express it yourself. And you can also find voices that introduce you to worlds you would never have otherwise visited.

Ask: is giving this choice to a user going to make the experience more interesting, valuable, or pleasurable? If the answer is no, leave it out.

Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

The best, most elegant microinteractions are often those that allow users a variety of verbs with the fewest possible nouns.

The Long Wow is about delivering new experiences or features over time instead of all at once, and by doing so building customer loyalty

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

You have to live to really know things, my love

It's like whenever a friend wants to show me their favorite movie... ... and it's great and all, but... ... I'd rather see something that they hadn't seen before. So we could watch it for the first time together.

Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.