Quotes About Experience

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

How would you know?" I snapped at him, and we both looked to the midwife. When she assured us that everything was fine and reminded us both to breathe, we listened. She knew. She had been there many times before. It was her knowledge, born of experience, that we trusted.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

Non ho mai capito come faccia a ridere in quel modo: ma penso che sia perché ha pianto molto. Solo chi ha pianto molto può apprezzare la vita nelle sue bellezze, e ridere bene.

Only those who have cried a lot can appropriate life in all its beauty and have a good laugh. It's easy to cry, hard to laugh.

What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them -- "teachable moments".

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.