Quotes about Experience

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

I knew I wanted a 'Girls'-type show about my life, but what's the big thing that happened to me? Oh, I got married when I was young.

I boxed, I was 2-0 as far as amateur boxing and it was fun but I didn't really want to compete no more.