Quotes About Experience

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.