Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.