Quotes About Experience

the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

When we graduated high school, she went to the Cooper Union in Manhattan to pursue her love of set design, and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas.

So, with my zit throbbing like a nightclub, I went to the interview.

When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

I know many friends who loved their sororities. I wasn't traumatized. I was just bored.

Luckily the rope fiasco was eclipsed, several weeks later, when I accidentally pronounced jalapeño with a hard j in front of Vijay, Hondo, and some other campers. I'd only ever seen it printed on the side of a can of salsa. "You think it's ja-lapeno?!" Hondo asked, incredulous. I did.

This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.

But it took me twelve weeks to realize that I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things. I should mention that I did learn a few undeniably useful things at my sorority,

and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas.

To know is to observe, to understand is to experience

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

En realidad, mi verdadero problema era que nunca había estado enamorada y, por tal motivo, mi forma de bailar carecía del profundo sentimiento que sólo se consigue después de experimentar una pasión amorosa.

Unlocking our potential requires education, experience, and determination. One should never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop going on adventures.

you cannot remain on your meditation cushion forever. You must go out and explore life as well.

You could tell the secret of life ten times over, and it would still be safe. After all, the secret is only known when people make it real in their own lives, not when they simply hear it.

do not be put off by the illusory nature of life. Use it. Everything in this life can be an advantage to the wise.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Cap temps no es perd, i al pou del sentiment l'aigua sempre es renova i vivifica la necessària set, el gran batec amb què el desig posa a prova la vida.

Heu esbrinat que en un instant només pot estimar-se tant com en tota una vida.