When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
