Hard Experience Quotes

A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

I didn't do so well at 'Saturday Night Live.' It was a very hard experience for me, for a lot of reasons that have to do with the kind of person I am and the personal issues I had at the time. I was very alone in New York, and the show has a lot of stress related to it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

The only way to progress is to make mistakes… We are learning the hard way.

Being a part of the practice squad was a tough year for me.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.