Quotes About Experience

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman ' and it knocked me on my ass.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.

I don't think I verbalized it to anyone, including myself, but I knew then that I wanted to be a perpetual traveler. I was happiest receiving and experiencing new information about the world, in situ.

What gives value to travel is fear.

The pause we're experiencing can highlight a basic truth: we may or may not walk this way again, and even if we do, we will never be precisely the same people who experienced that journey in the first place. Travel is only ever about a moment in time and space, but it's also about how we choose to hold that moment in our memories. It is always both present and past.

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

My all-time favourite bowlers are Mitchell Johnson, Wasim Akram and Brett Lee. I used to watch their videos and learn from them. I have learnt a lot from Johnson, and Malinga too. I try to learn from any senior bowlers who have played international cricket.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

Las personas tal vez consistimos, en suma, tanto en lo que somos como en lo que hemos sido, tanto en lo comprobable y cuantificable y recordable como en lo más incierto, indeciso y difuminado, quizá estamos hechos en igual medida de lo que fue y de lo que pudo ser.

Sí, es la conciencia de la edad lo que nos condiciona, más que la edad misma.

todo nos parece poco, todo se comprime y nos parece poco una vez que termina, entonces siempre resulta que nos faltó tiempo y no duró lo bastante

La vida entera parece de mentira, cuando se es joven. Lo que les pasa a otros, las desdichas, las calamidades, los crímenes, todo ello nos resulta ajeno, como si no existiera. Incluso lo que nos pasa a nosotros nos parece ajeno una vez que ya ha pasado. Hay quien es así toda la vida, eternamente joven, una desgracia.

Nadie ve con nitidez lo que ya no está delante, aunque acabe de suceder o aún floten en la habitación el aroma o el descontento de quien apenas se ha despedido.

Mindegy mi történik a regényekben, mert úgyis elfelejtjük, ha véget érnek. A lehetÅ'ségek és a gondolatok számítanak, amelyekre felnyitják a szemünket, és amikre fiktív történetükkel ráébresztenek; ezek tisztábban maradnak meg bennünk, mint a valós események kapcsán, és jobban megfontoljuk Å'ket.

Furcsa kor ez a miénk" – gondoltam. "Most mindenrÅ'l lehet beszélni, és mindenkit meg kell hallgatni, akármit is tett; és nem csak azért, hogy védekezhessen, hanem mert a meséje mintha önmagában is érdekes volna.

nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.

nadie sabe nada a lo que no ha asistido

Uno olvida el daño que causa infinitamente más que el que se le inflige, uno olvida cuanto dice y hace y escribe, rara vez lo que oye y lee y padece.