Quotes about Experience

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

Wine is bottled poetry.