Quotes About Experience

Every situation has changed me as a person.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Thank you for that experience.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

God never said that we wouldn't have unfair situations, that we wouldn't experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.