We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
