Quotes About Experience

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!

We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama feels quite at home in the world of Meister Eckhart, and His Holiness Pope John Paul II quotes the same Meister Eckhart on occasion in a sermon. Now, there's a bridge builder between traditions! Should this come as a surprise? No, it shouldn't surprise us, for Meister Eckhart is a mystic. The mystics of all traditions speak one and the same language, the language of religious experience. When

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

remember one day when we were out shooting on location, I said to him, "Slim, you've made a thousand movies. I've only made two. Give me some advice." He said, "Well, Mel, whenever you get a chance—sit down. Directing takes a lot out of you and you're too busy to notice how tired you are.

Failure is vital. It is an incredibly important quotient in the equation of a career. After you wipe away your tears, it's not a bad experience and under the right circumstances it will make you better, both as a person and as an artist.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

In our layered experience of the world, it's possible to believe we have left behind the blunt realities of being animal. Nothing could be further from the truth. Human life may be a blend of biology and dreams, but these dreams are still animal dreams.

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.