Quotes About Experience

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

I grew up in a loving family, but I essentially grew up alone. I had no friends for a while.

While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.