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Experience Quotes
"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
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"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."
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"I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience."
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"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."
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"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."
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"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
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"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
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"Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."
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"The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'"
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"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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"Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience."
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"If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one."
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"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision."
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"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
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"I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor."
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"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."
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"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."
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"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."
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"This ain't my first rodeo!"
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"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."
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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
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"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."
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"As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs."
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"You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure."
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"At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me."
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"Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience."
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"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."
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"Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard."
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"After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need."
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"Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience."
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"Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions."
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."
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"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."
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"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
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"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."
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"Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another."
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"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."
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