It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.
I have never entered into any Controversy in defence of my philosophical Opinions; I leave them to take their Chance in the World. If they are right, Truth and Experience will support them. If wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour ones Temper and disturb one’s Quiet.
I am a part of all that I have met.
I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so. Good order and discipline in an army are more to be depended upon than ferocity.[La natura genera pochi uomini gagliardi; la industria e l’esercizio ne fa assai. Può la disciplina nella guerra più che il furore.]
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.[La sperieza no falla mai, ma sol fallano i vostri giuditi, promettendosi di quella efetti tali che ne’ uostri esperimeti causati no sono.]
