Quotes About Experience

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and they're like, 'Why is this happening? Let's just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.'

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

I was a teacher once.

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.