Quotes on experience

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Author: Edward Abbey

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Author: Jack Abbott

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Author: John Abizaid

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

Author: John Abizaid

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Author: Chinua Achebe

In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.

Author: Alvin Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Author: Ansel Adams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Author: Douglas Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Author: Henry Adams

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Author: Joseph Addison

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Author: Trace Adkins

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Author: Alfred Adler

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Author: Felix Adler

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Author: Freda Adler

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Author: Renata Adler

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Author: Stella Adler

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Author: Aeschylus

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Author: Ben Affleck

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Author: Mark Akenside

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Author: Amos Alcott

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

Author: Jean Alesi

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Author: Samuel Alexander

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

Author: Samuel Alexander

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Author: William Alexander

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

Author: Tatyana Ali

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

Author: Lucille Allard

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Author: Marcus Allen

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

Author: Roland Allen

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Author: Henri Amiel

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Author: A. Ammons

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Author: Greg Anderson

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Author: Richard Anderson

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Author: Barbara Angelis

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.

Author: Barbara Angelis

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Author: Barbara Angelis

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

Author: Francesca Annis

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Author: David Antin

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Author: Minna Antrim

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

Author: Dario Argento

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Author: Adam Arkin

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

Author: Will Arnett

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Author: Sholem Asch

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Author: Roger Ascham

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Author: Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Author: Roger Ascham

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Author: Matthew Ashford

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Author: W. Auden

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.

Author: Saint Augustine

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Author: Saint Avila

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

Author: Emanuel Ax

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Author: Sai Baba

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

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.

Author: Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Author: Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Author: Francis Bacon

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Author: Roger Bacon

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Author: Michael Baden

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Author: Jane Badler

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

Author: Scott Baio

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Author: John Baldacci

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Author: James Baldwin

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

Author: James Baldwin

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Author: James Baldwin

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Author: James Baldwin

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Author: Jan Balkenende

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

Author: Johnny Ball

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Author: Hosea Ballou

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Author: Balthus

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

Author: Toni Bambara

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Author: Albert Bandura

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

Author: William Banting

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

Author: Javier Bardem

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Author: Bob Barker

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Author: Clive Barker

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Author: Tom Barrett

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

Author: Todd Barry

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

Author: John Barton

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

Author: Martin Bashir

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

Author: Kathy Bates

All experience is subjective.

Author: Gregory Bateson

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Author: Orlando Battista

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Author: James Beard

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Author: Xavier Becerra

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

Author: Xavier Becerra

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Author: Beck

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Author: Martha Beck

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Author: Ulrich Beck

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

Author: Ulrich Beck

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

Author: Gerry Beckley

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Author: Daniel Bell

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Author: E. Bell

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Author: Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Author: Walter Benjamin

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Author: Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Author: Arnold Bennett

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Author: Bo Bennett

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Author: Robert Bennett

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Author: Ezra Benson

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Author: Bruce Beresford

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Author: John Berger

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

Author: Xander Berkeley

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Author: Milton Berle

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

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

Author: Annie Besant

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Author: Henry Beston

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Author: Jeff Bezos

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

Author: Jeff Bezos

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

Author: Michael Biehn

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Author: Josh Billings

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

Author: Susan Blackmore

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.

Author: Joan Blades

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Author: Ken Blanchard

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Author: Orlando Bloom

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

Author: Kurtis Blow

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Author: Lionel Blue

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

Author: James Blunt

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Author: Steven Bochco

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

Author: Steven Bochco

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Author: Bodhidharma

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Author: Simon Bolivar

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Author: Michael Bolton

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Author: Edward Bond

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

Author: Kit Bond

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Author: Edward Bono

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

Author: Daniel Boorstin

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

Author: Matthew Bourne

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Author: Randolph Bourne