Quotes about Experience
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.
- Arthur C. Clarke
There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
- George Clooney
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.
- George Lucas
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
- George Washington
There's only one story, the story of your life.
- Helen Keller
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
- Henri Nouwen
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- Isabel Allende