Quotes About Experience

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.