Quotes About Experience

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

The first time I baked, I failed a couple of times, and I made some mistakes and perhaps ended up with something inedible. Then I was a little bit more careful, and I learned how to do it right.

I've failed a lot in my career.

Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

I believe failures are very important in any person's growth. I've learnt what not to do from them.

In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.

I learnt a lot from my failures.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

We create real situations. Anything's fair game.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

I've been in this industry for nine years and I've done a fair share of films, but it's not been rewarding enough for me so far.

I've had my fair share of relationships, including some long distance ones.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.