Quotes About Experience

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn't affect me because I know the truth.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Scars can be a good story. I survived and I am proud of them. I didn't want it, obviously. The girls definitely like them.

It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

Without my experiences on the likes of 'Lost' and 'Alias,' I don't know if I would have survived 'Rogue One.'

There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn't.

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

I've survived a lot of managers, so I must have been doing something right.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.