“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
Interview in Writers at Work (1988)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Variant: Asteros's Motto: "Most experience comes from bad judgement.
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Bruce Lee
(1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 22
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
Book III, Chapter 10, "Hope"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Johnny Depp
(1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
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“I'm trying to make the theatrical experience an environmental experience.”
Julie Taymor
(1952) American film and theatre director
60 Minutes interview (2010)
Context: I'm trying to make the theatrical experience an environmental experience. We want to have the theatre of it right in the laps of the audience … You don't know until the last half second that he's going to be that close.
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
Rita Mae Brown
(1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Brown may have used this quote in 2001 but it was it in a 365 day "Quote" calendar in 1994.
Source: Alma Mater