Quotes About Experience

Accadono cose che sono come domande. Passa un minuto, oppure anni, e poi la vita risponde.

Reasons get forgotten.

And a while later: 'It is a strange sort of pain.' Softly. 'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.

La storia è costretta a indovinare. Fortuna che c'è avvezza.

oral history is ultimately ... a document that we do not find but rather cocreate inside the interview

The interview is two things at once: a tool for research, and the opening of a narrative space.

The interview is not a question-and-answer session, but the offer of a narrative possibility

The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.

Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?

have to be alive to tell the tale.

Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Those words are as true now as they were in 2006. We have forgotten them once already this year. We can't afford to make that mistake again.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.

you learn more from defeats than you do from victories

Watching others, listening to their advice and reading about people are three of the best things I ever did.

I certainly found more virtue in patiently working towards the right decision as I got older. In my early days as a manager I could be impetuous - always in a hurry to get things done and stamp my authority on a situation. It takes courage to say, 'Let me think about it. When you're young you want to fly to the moon and you want to get there quickly. I think it's usually enthusiasm that causes this. As you get older you temper your enthusiasm with experience.

If you are a boy who has just had his tenth birthday, your next one seems an eternity away. That's because the single year that stretches ahead amounts to 10 per cent of the time you have been on earth. It's a different sensation when you turn 50, because the distance to your 51st birthday amounts to just 2 per cent of the time you have been alive. As you get older and more experienced, you start to think about how you allocate time.

Great teamwork comes from deep familiarity and developing close bonds with others. In a company, people who have worked together for a long time will know how others will react in certain situations, and may even be able to anti cipate what their colleagues might say.

One aspect of team-building that often gets overlooked is the need for old-timers to have the necessary patience with newcomers.

Jamie Carragher trained with United as a youngster. When he was with us he was a midfielder and a mundane, run-of-the-mill player.

I often of someone by listening to the questions they pose. It shows how they think; offers a sense of their level of experience and degree of maturity.

Observar a otras personas, prestar atención a sus consejos y leer sobre otros seres humanos son tres de las mejores cosas que he hecho en mi vida.

In a company, people who have worked together for a long time will know how others will react in certain situations, and may even be able to anticipate what their colleagues might say.