Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

I draw inspiration from everything I've seen and been through. My life has been my biggest teacher.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.