Quotes about Experience

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

I've learned a lot the hard way.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.

Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school.

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

EVERY PILOT REMEMBERS his first flight. For me, it was in a Cessna 172 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1968.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

China's experience reminded me of the French and Russian revolutions. The pattern was the same: People seized control by promising to promote certain ideals. Once they had consolidated power, they abused it, casting aside their beliefs and brutalizing their fellow citizens. It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself.

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.