Quotes about Experience

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I'm not sure I can look at it like there's something I haven't yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.

I had the best shooting experience in Dharavi. People are so cooperative and busy with their work that they don't have time to be star struck.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.