You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory–humorous, poignant, humane allegory–disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom...

I attribute that to a lack of playoff experience. Playoff basketball is a little bit different. We hadn’t seen this kind of atmosphere before and for us, our inexperience kind of showed.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

We came out flat, with no intensity. That’s the inexperience of our ball club; we didn’t look ready to play against one of the top teams around.

Three of our losses have come in one-goal games, so we’ve been right there all season. Our inexperience has hurt us a little, but we’re starting to play better as a team and we’re putting...

We weren’t as consistent as we should be. It was a lot better than (Wednesday) night. We got some easy baskets inside to the point that they started double-teaming Leah. We really didn’t go back...

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to...

In all four, we split the bouts (seven wins for each team), but our inexperience cost us and we didn’t get the bonus points to win. We’re right there with those teams.

Our inexperience showed at the end.

Our team was a little inexperienced. We kind of peaked at district. Our inexperience caught up with us on this course. The course won.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must...

Money can’t buy you a Goliath. It can’t buy you an unbeatable team. You gotta have someone who can coach them, someone who can mold them into a unit. You can really equalize things with...

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.