Quotes about Experience

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.

Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend who would take me to Seahawks games in the 1980s.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.