Quotes About Experience

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

As her writing developed, Jane Austen recognised that there were different ways of creating original works of art and that the skills acquired from experience and experimentation were ultimately as important as the initial sparks of inspiration.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano ' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

M. Jacques Rivière appears to know no Russian and says no words of 'aspects', but what he explains as his meaning is simply this, that the Russian novel is written in the imperfective, written from within not without, lived not thought about. This modern Russian method is to M. Rivière the exact opposite of symbolist work, where everything is known beforehand, everything achieved then thought or felt about from outside and above.

It was worth many hardships to see forty German professors try to mount forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬ ship, as already hinted, is nothing to " write home about ", but compared to those German professors I am a centaur.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Jei vaikyst?je tav?s nemyl?jo, tu nemok?si myl?ti vaiko. Meil? reikia patirti anks?iau. Gali ?skaudinti iš nežinojimo.

But it's true, she thought, nobody really knows a thing about another's past. Why should we? Different worlds we all inhabit from the womb.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.