When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

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.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

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.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I hate interviews – but you have to do them.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

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

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

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.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

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.

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

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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.

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

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.

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

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

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.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.