Experience Quotes

"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."

"I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared."

"I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride."

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."

"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be."

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

"We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises."

"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

"I've noticed that throughout my experience, when you keep positive energy, positive things happen."

"The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck."

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

"I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way."

"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

"We deserve a president with the knowledge and experience to reassure a nation weary of tweets, lies, and incompetence. And we deserve a president who speaks to the best of who we are and challenges us to live up to our ideals."

"The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time."

"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."

"No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions."

"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."

"We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them."

"Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'"

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully."

"For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience."

"My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

"People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience."

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."

"I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more."

"The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so."

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

"If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success."

"I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition."

"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."

"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."