Quotes About Growth

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Some people have nothing but experience.

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.