Experience Quotes
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...
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I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to ...
Show MoreI loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experi...
Show MoreHe could see perfectly well that "it," his life, was leading nowhere, that he wss behaving like a mi...
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I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to b...
Show MoreI am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...
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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...
Show MoreMagic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel...
Show MoreExperience 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...
Show MoreIn the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at ...
Show MoreAn intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned fr...
Show MoreKnowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing ...
Show MoreMy background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family...
Show MoreThe intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something abou...
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Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself...
Show MoreWe need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, wheth...
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Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
Show MoreWisdom is the daughter of experience
I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that t...
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To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, moth...
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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...
Show MoreI don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected ...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, an...
Show MoreOld love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a despera...
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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see ...
Show MoreDeath is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
Show MoreIt's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but re...
Show MoreIt's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressi...
Show MoreAtheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...
Show MoreScience provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding ...
Show MoreWhen 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 ...
Show MoreWhenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion...
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Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
Show MoreWhy am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All ...
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want...
Show MoreThe impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...
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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...
Show MoreI'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for th...
Show MoreIf people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little ...
Show MoreCertainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the ...
Show MoreThere is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...
Show More... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a specie...
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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
Show MoreI've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
Show MoreVery often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies toge...
Show MoreNor 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 ...
Show MoreA lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That ...
Show MoreBut in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...
Show MoreTechnology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather th...
Show MoreI learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
Show MoreI can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people...
Show MoreWe are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our...
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Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actu...
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You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...
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All my songs are different, but from the overall experience, I want people to sense that they can ov...
Show MoreLook at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts....
Show MoreI teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told ...
Show MoreStories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and...
Show MoreIf what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of ...
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There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot ...
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It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom...
Show MoreMy whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had i...
Show MoreYet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recogni...
Show MoreBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand s...
Show MoreRomantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So...
Show MoreNever, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi...
Show MoreI would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrat...
Show MoreExperience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Frankl...
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No m...
Show MoreEvery man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by k...
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each...
Show MoreBut, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Thro...
Show MoreTurn your wounds into wisdom.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every ex...
Show MoreHow much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understa...
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As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man ...
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Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.