top of page
.png){kind=small}
Experience Quotes
"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
33
"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
33
"I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too."
33
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
33
"Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce."
33
"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
33
"It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization."
33
"No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience."
33
"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
33
"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."
33
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
33
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
33
"The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center."
33
"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."
33
"Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers."
33
"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."
33
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
33
"It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience."
33
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
33
"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions."
33
"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
33
"I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."
32
"To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses."
32
"I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now."
32
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
32
"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting."
32
"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."
32
"I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics."
32
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
32
"My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid."
32
"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."
32
"The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience."
32
"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."
32
"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
32
"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."
32
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
32
"We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive."
32
"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
32
"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension."
32
"In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can."
32
"What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice."
32
"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
32
"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."
32
"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."
32
"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
32
"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
32
"And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience."
32
"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy."
32
bottom of page