Quotes About Experience

When I first heard about statistics in 1951, I firmly believed it to be the best technique around, and it took me 26 years to be completely free of its spell.

learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

For children to know and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience this kind of interaction many hundreds of times in the critical period and then to have it reinforced later in life.

Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.

children learn their experience; they don't necessarily learn what we intend them to.")

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

After we tried ecstasy everyone at school called us 'The Group'.

When it comes to curbing speech, experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Ravished is a nice word found in sentimental novel. Between us, Moran, the word that stuck in my mind like shit to the bottom of a shoe was fucked .

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Some people grow up at 15, some at 38. It is more painful at 38.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.