Experience Quotes

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with ...

This is the best worst time of my life.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan t...

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ...

Didn't you read the owner's ma

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience ...

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for...

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes exper...

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thought...

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,...

People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a k...

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illust...

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better...

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At t...

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood wi...

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. T...

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world ...

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' a...

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to...

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or ...

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait ca...

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience wit...

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...

What you really value is what you miss not what you have.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be f...

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ...

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experi...

He could see perfectly well that "it," his life, was leading nowhere, that he wss behaving like a mi...

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to b...

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel...

Experience is the teacher of all things.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one rec...

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at ...

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned fr...

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing ...

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family...

The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something abou...

Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself...

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, wheth...

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that t...

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, moth...

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religi...

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected ...

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a despera...

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see ...

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but re...

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressi...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding ...

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can ...

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion...

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All ...

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want...

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.

Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty.""It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.

The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone...

I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for th...

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little ...

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the ...

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...

... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a specie...

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies toge...

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would ...

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That ...

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.