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Experience Quotes
"Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience."
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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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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
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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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"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
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"I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach."
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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
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"We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions."
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"The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience."
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"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
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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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"The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience."
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"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."
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"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."
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"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."
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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
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"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."
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"I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience."
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"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."
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"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."
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"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."
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"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."
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"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."
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"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."
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"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."
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"The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since."
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"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
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"And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too."
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"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience."
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"Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer."
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"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."
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"I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience."
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"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
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"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."
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"I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish."
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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."
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"I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path."
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"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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"It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is."
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"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."
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"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."
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"Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future."
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"About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract."
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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
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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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"I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right."
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"You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell."
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