Quotes About Experience

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

I wasted so many years in my youth.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

No amount of money and time spent travelling is wasted.

For ages I thought I'd wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I've learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.

I remember my first time in the studio, I wasted like six hours. There were too many people in there. I was kind of shy.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Just because you watch 'Grey's Anatomy' doesn't mean you can do the operation.

I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.