I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

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.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

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.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.