Quotes About Experience

I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

It's a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it's also rare to play someone that teaches you something.

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

Every musician that comes along teaches me something.

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

I don't really think of past experiences as 'mistakes' - I think everything brings us where we need to go and teaches us what we need to learn. I'm grateful for all my wobbles because I wouldn't be here without them.

Growing up with Koli boys is a different experience. It teaches you survival.

Nothing really teaches you for the film world.

Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's a historical role or one that requires training in accent.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

You can score goals at youth level but men's football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.

Every experience is different, teaches you a new thing - good or bad - and you just take it, learn from it and move on.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

Every character, every story that you do, it teaches you a lot.

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

I am greatly honoured to become Patron of The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. I have benefited hugely from their work, and I am looking forward to supporting them in giving a chance to others to benefit from their experience and teaching.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.