Quotes About Experience

If I try to teach you what I do, you will fail because you are not me. If you hang around me, you will observe what I do, and you may pick up some good habits. But there are a lot of things you will want to do differently. Colm O'Shea

Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half. My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories.

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

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.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.

Pain can work from the outside in. I mean that sometimes what you see is pain. Pain in its cruelest, purest form.

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

We're many things, all of us, blown by so many unexpected winds.

I'm not going to tell you about this. I refuse to. There are things you know you'll die before telling, things you know you should have died before ever having seen. I watched and saw.

The anesthetic was amazing. His eyes flickered down and he could see his own organs beneath the film of welling blood, his lungs, his heart, and below them his diaphragm, stomach, liver. Yet there was no pain. He felt only an itch around his collarbone and a strange cold feeling, like drinking crushed ice in a tall summer drink-so cold you could feel it all the way down inside you.

She had never met an actor who wasn't utterly dim

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love – or any other experience – must take place in the present.

what Buddhist writers call the clear open sky of awareness. It is empty like space, but unlike space it is sentient; it knows experience. In its true state, consciousness is simply this knowing

Much of life cannot be explained, it can only be witnessed.