Quotes About Experience

They spent a week or two testing the circuit together for a few hours each day. Debugging a complex electronic device being almost as powerful a bonding experience as, say, serving on a submarine in wartime, Metcalfe learned a lot about his partner: That he was a digital whiz, accomplished at wielding the oscilloscope, and, most interesting, underemployed in his POLOS work.

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you'll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.

Who was the only U.S. president with less managerial, military, financial, and foreign policy experience than the current one?" Netanyahu, though a proficient historian, looked stumped by the answer: "Abraham Lincoln.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

El Al Boeing 747 took on board 1,087 immigrants; but when it landed, it carried 1,088 people. A baby had been born during the flight.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I do like to laugh. I remember Roger Moore, years ago, saying to me "Cheer up. You'd better have a good time because this is not a rehearsal, this is life. This is the show.

The beach was such a novel experience that most were completely unfamiliar with the health hazards—and risks to life and limb—it posed." —Gideon Bosker and Lena Lencek, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth

Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.

I think of beauty as something that dies; either it's destroyed by time or stupidity or I have only a moment to experience it, and then only memory after that; even if i can return and look again, I can't quite manage to get back the moment. So, to me, the beauty of the trees is like the beauty of death, as if death will mean wondering forever in the dim of those trees, the landscape funerealizes in its lushest profusion of green.

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

Love can corrupt and destroy, distort and betray – this I know from my own bitter experience; but I now also know that, without love, we are nothing.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

Pleasure and shame. Shame and pleasure. These were the world's currencies. And it paid out both in equal measure.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it.

She knew many survivors of the Holocaust. She said that for some, their experience destroyed their faith in a good God. Others believed more deeply than ever.