Quotes About Experience

Je commence à avoir trente ans, et je perds le talent de vivre.

When I was seven, that would be in the year 458, there came the first sudden upset of my life of sudden upsets.

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.

Once you've experienced any emotional pain, the pain is imprinted on your inner being and remains there until you intentionally resolve it.

I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.

During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.