Experience — the wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
What is important is less the reason for the experience than the experience itself.
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
No one hits the bull's eye with the first arrow.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
— Incredible. There's Smith and he's standing there and... he's got the iceberg warning in his fucking hand... excuse me... his hand, and he's ordering more speed.
— 26 years of experience working against him.
Losses aren’t fun, they always sting for a while, but that’s the beast of this business. You can’t win them all, and it’s important to understand that losing is just as much a part of sports (and life) as winning. Don’t ever forget God will always put you where you’re meant to be at that exact moment. You can’t dwell on what you should have done better, but you can learn and improve from it and come back more prepared next time.
If the experience is not turned into text, it does not even become the past.
One's sense of cold is relative to one's experience.
— I fear I am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers.
— Shall we ask him why? Why a man of sense and education, who has lived in the world, should be ill qualified to recommend himself to strangers?
— I... I have not that talent which some possess, of conversing easily with strangers.
— I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have supposed that to be my own fault, because I would not take the trouble of practising!
— You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one privileged of hearing you could think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.
You need to hear everybody's stories to understand what would be helpfiul to make lives better. The whole point of film and culture is to try to walk in other people's shoes, to understand our similarities and our differences.
Ellen Ripley: — How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant?
Gorman: — Thirty-eight... Simulated.
Vasquez: — How many combat drops?
Gorman: — Uh, two... including this one.
Hudson: — Shit.