Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wis...
Spending $100 million on a fancy gym is completely unremarkable in contemporary American higher education. Yet $10 million for a really good online biology course that could serve millions of students is seen as an outlandish, unaffordable expense.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher ...
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one...
Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and...
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library t...
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to c...
experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
I didn't go to college.
I went to college for about a year in California.
I was small but slow as a college tackle.
I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
I wrote comedy sketches in college.
