Quotes About Experience

When I hear people complain about fame, it always sounds to me like, "Why do they pay me in gold bars? Gold bars are so heavy." But fame is not creativity, it's the industrial disease of creativity. Fame is a real experience, but it's not a Canadian experience, and nothing about growing up in Canada prepares you for a public life.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering—because you can't take it all in at once. AUDREY HEPBURN

The seed I would like to plant is that The Mystery, self-transcendence itself, might simply be the skill of truly having fun. Finding wisdom from a much deeper well than what we can create on our own. Being able to lose yourself in an experience, being able to savor the moment without attributing any context. Joy for joy's sake.

Anthony Durnford was a fish out of water, both in terms of experience and, even more importantly, in the closely interlinked fields of judgement and temperament.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Work is where we form a sense of identity. It is how we leverage the skills and experience we have gained over the years, and where we can see the results of our efforts. You don't have to be a champion skier, the CEO of a global corporation, or a rock star for your labors to have personal significance. You just have to connect with your work in a way that provides meaning and a sense of overall purpose.

When algorithms become deeply embedded in our daily lives, they have the potential to greatly influence how we behave. If we reach that point, we will no longer be able to easily discern how much of our memory, experiences, tastes, or even our own identity is native to us and how much is merely the technological extensions of ourselves.

When the Lord moves in your life in a real and personal way, no one can ever take it away from you. People can try, but there's something ironclad about having an experience with the very real God.

You have experience in C programming? That's mainly what we need on that project.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

Life is much richer and more complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to impose abstract schemes, even with the best of intentions. Perestroika has made us understand this about our past, and the actual experience of recent years has taught us to reckon with the most general laws of civilization.

The idea of restructuring [perestroika]… combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Az utolsó öröm éppen olyan édes, mint valaha régen az els? lehetett.

No, no, no, no, no. Sex should not be fun, okay? Sex can be lots of things - thrilling, romantic, scary, mindless, dirty, dangerous, frantic, forbidden, freaky - but if you're finding it 'fun,' you're doing it wrong.

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Weariness! Weariness! This was life—my life—my career, my brilliant career! I was fifteen—fifteen! A few fleeting hours and I would be as old as those around me.

To be human is to be in a story.