Bruce Sterling Quotes

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

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

I learn from experience.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

The truth is lived, not taught.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

I have studied at the school of the world.

We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.