Quotes about Experience
I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.
— Andrew Gillum
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
— Elie Wiesel
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
— Maya Angelou
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
— Gloria Steinem
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
— Anne Reid
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!
— Isabel Allende
I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
— Oprah Winfrey
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.
— Phil Klay
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'
— Melissa McCarthy
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.
— Olga Tokarczuk
I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.
— Tom Douglas
My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.
— Tim Tebow