Experience Quotes:

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

- A. R. Ammons

topic: Experience, Opinion, Direct

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

- Abba Kovner

topic: Experience, World, Want, Chunks

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Experience, World, Internals

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Unhappy, Experience, Path, Milestone, Abba

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

source: "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.

topic: Blessed, Experience, Crafts

Experience really does make you better, man.

- Alan Vega

topic: Men, Experience, Doe, Better Man

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

- Albert Camus

topic: Understanding, Experience, Experience And Learning, Minimalist

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

- Albert Camus

topic: Age, Experience, World, No Reason

Experience teaches only the teachable.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Experience, Teachable

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Experience, Tribulation, Parentheses, Omitting

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Imagination, Experience, Tragedy

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Differences, Experience

Experience is never at bargain price.

- Alice B. Toklas

topic: Experience

problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...

- Alice Miller

source: Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.104, Basic Books

topic: Experience, Problem

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

- Alice Walker

topic: God, Experience, Possibility, Experiencing God

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

- Alicia Witt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Thinking, Experience, School Experience

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

- Allen Tate

source: Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

topic: Criticism, Experience, May

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

- Ally Sheedy

topic: Hands, Experience, Taught

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Success, Responsibility, Experience, Shovels

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Book, Experience, Failing

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

- Amy Grant

topic: Insomnia, Experience, Impossible, Wisdom And Experience

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

- Amy Lowell

topic: Self, Sorrow, Experience

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Thinking, Experience, Lessons

It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.

- Andrew Norman Wilson

topic: Ideas, Experience, Way

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

- Andy Rooney

topic: Age, Experience

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

- Anne Truitt

source: Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

topic: Experience, Welcome, Stills

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Artist, Perspective, Experience, New Perspective

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

- April Greiman

source: April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

topic: Emotional, Design, Experience, Emotional Response

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

- Arjuna Ardagh

source: Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

topic: Years, Experience, Today, Mystical Experiences

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

- Asger Jorn

topic: Lying, Experience, Matter

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.

- Audrey Tautou

source: Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.

topic: Growing Up, Experience, Needs

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Worry, Experience, Instinct, Natural Instinct

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Doors, House, Experience

He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.

- Bayard Taylor

source: Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93

topic: Heart, Men, Experience

Great men never require experience.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Men, Experience, Great Men

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Teacher, Experience, Fool

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

- Benjamin Minge Duggar

topic: Experience, Goes On

A man can't retire his experience.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Experience, Retiring, Ciphers, Inspirational Retirement

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

- Bernard Malamud

source: 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20

topic: Past, Experience, Clay

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

- Bette Davis

topic: Experience, Shapes, Rewards

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

- Booth Tarkington

topic: Experience, Seriousness

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

- Brenda Shoshanna

topic: Focus, Experience, Each Day

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

- Brenda Shoshanna

topic: Self, Experience, World

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

- Bruce Laingen

topic: Water, Tea, Experience, Tea Bag, Hot Water

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

- Bruce Tognazzini

topic: Design, Experience, Nipples, Intuitive

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

- Byron Katie

topic: Teacher, People, Experience, People In Your Life

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

- Carolee Schneemann

source: Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.131, MIT Press

topic: Drawing, Experience, Sacred

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

- Cary Grant

topic: Self, Giving, Experience, Masochistic

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

- Chauncey Wright

source: Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.109, A&C Black

topic: Giving, Experience, Research

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

- Christoph Martin Wieland

topic: Men, Experience, May

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

- Chuck Yeager

source: Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

topic: Real, Sky, Experience

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Experience, Mileage

Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Lying, Everyday, Experience

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Ideas, Experience

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Experience, Substance, Facts

To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.

- David Abram

topic: Experience, Definitions, Way, Conceptualization

If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

- David Abram

topic: Hands, Experience, Wish, Affirming, Sensing

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

- David Emerald Womeldorff

topic: Loss, Desire, Experience

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

topic: Player, Dvds, Experience

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

- David Ogden Stiers

topic: Kids, Giving, Experience

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Self, Two, Experience, Self Sufficiency

Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Heart, Experience, Tuning, Bonding

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Storm, Experience, Resistance

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

- Denis Donoghue

source: 1986 We Irish.

topic: Country, Experience, Facts

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Mistake, Years, Experience, My Mistakes, Mistakes Happen

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

- Dick Thornburgh

topic: Experience, Needs, Resolution

I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.

- Dominique Swain

topic: Thinking, Experience, Moments

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

- Donna Tartt

topic: Years, Experience, Weight

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

- Doug Rader

topic: Moon, Important, Experience

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

- Douglas Trumbull

source: "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

topic: Experience, Firsts, Film

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Art, Experience, Painting, Inspirational Artist, Inspiring Art

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

- Edward Zwick

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Experience, Catharsis

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

- Elliot W. Eisner

topic: Art, Feelings, Experience

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Experience, Foreboding, Stirring

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Creative, Experience, Events

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

- Eric Maisel

source: Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.204, New World Library

topic: Art, Experience, Enough

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

- Ernst Mach

source: Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

topic: Science, Order, Experience

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

- Eugene Delacroix

topic: Giving, Experience, Done

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

- F. R. Leavis

source: 1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

topic: Mean, Experience, Quality, Subtlety

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

- Fanny Fern

source: Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.15

topic: Doctors, Experience, Diploma

By far the best proof is experience.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Science, Experience, Belief

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Men, Experience, Unexpected

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Life, Experience, Novices, Stages Of Life

Let the experience begin!

- Frank Gehry

topic: Experience

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

- Frank McCourt

topic: Workout, Sky, Experience, Sky Is The Limit

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Experience, Different, Being There, Different Subjects

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Character, Experience, Determined, Lack Of Character

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Desire, Experience, Doe

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

- George Eliot

topic: Thinking, Understanding, Experience

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

- George Santayana

topic: Experience, Conclusion, Draws, Drawing Conclusions, Empiricism

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

- George Santayana

topic: Experience, Glimpse, Causes, Peepholes, Rumble

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Georges Clemenceau

source: "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

topic: Keys, Experience, Thirty, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

topic: Meditation, Mind, Experience

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

- Gerald Jampolsky

source: Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

topic: Past, Mind, Experience, Past Experiences

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

- Grenville Kleiser

topic: Lying, Years, Experience

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Experience

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Past, Experience, Events, Future Events

Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are........

- Harold Homer Anderson

topic: Experience, Who We Are, Today

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Learning, School, Experience, School Experience, Good School

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Science, Common Sense, Experience, Prevision

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

- Henry Ford

topic: Experience, Sometimes, Realizing, Good Character, Model T

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Men, Experience, Portraits

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

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Experience, Tangible, Theory

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Experience, Add, Knowledge Gained, Knowledge And Experience

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Experience, Retrospect

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

- Idi Amin

source: 1978 Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in A Barrow International Gossip (1983).

topic: Men, Experience, Lessons

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

- Ilka Chase

topic: Passing Away, Experience, Humans

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Understanding, Experience, Print

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

- Isak Dinesen

source: Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage

topic: People, Experience, Old People

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

- Ivan Panin

topic: Experience

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

- Ivan Panin

topic: Experience

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Life, Experience, Looks, Great Hobbit

Every moment is an experience.

- Jake Roberts

source: "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

topic: Spiritual, Experience, Moments

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama’s Moment of Truth" by Rev. Peter Laarman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Experience

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

- James Agate

topic: Long, Theatre, Experience, Bronchitis

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

- James Anthony Froude

topic: Art, Experience, Moral

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

- James H. Austin

source: James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.12, MIT Press

topic: Simple, Everyday, Experience

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

- Jan Peter Balkenende

topic: Moving On, Experience, Taught, Bitter Experience

Information is alienated experience.

- Jaron Lanier

topic: Experience, Information

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

- Jean Toomer

topic: Life, Experience, Rope

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Growing Up, Brain, Experience, Goth

Color is an intense experience on its own.

- Jim Hodges

topic: Color, Experience, Intense

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

- Jim Morrison

topic: Thinking, Important, Experience, Lowest Point

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

- Jimmy Connors

topic: Experience, Trouble, Advantage

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Experience, Practicals, Values

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Experience, Rays, Atoms, Electrons, Electrical

We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.

- John Ashbery

topic: Life, Memories, Experience, Demented

Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.

- John Daishin Buksbazen

source: John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Change, Wish, Experience

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Historical, Experience, Generations

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

- John Frusciante

topic: Experience, Taught

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

- John Henrik Clarke

topic: Experience, Trash, Instruments, Trash Cans

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

- John Keats

topic: Life, Real, Experience

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

- John Keats

topic: Errors, Experience, Form

Experience is a great teacher.

- John Legend

topic: Teacher, Reality, Experience

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

- John Milton

topic: Experience, Prophetic

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

- John Ruskin

topic: Passion, Skills, Experience, Living Your Passion, Unified

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

- John Seely Hart

source: John Seely Hart (1862). “Mistakes of Educated Men”, p.49

topic: Intellectual, Experience, Add, Happy Experience

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Inspirational, Adoption, Experience

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

topic: Truth, Home, Experience, Personal Experiences

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

- John Updike

source: "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

topic: Life, Experience, Doe

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

- John W. Thompson

source: "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Experience

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

- John Wooden

topic: Life, Sportsmanship, Experience, Great Talent

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

- Jonathan Ive

topic: Design, Experience, Way

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Sublime, Experience

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

- Josh Billings

topic: Experience, Lucky, Grindstone

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

- Josh Billings

topic: Experience, Increase, Folly

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

- Judith Wright

topic: Experience, Hungry, Difficult

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

- Judy Collins

topic: Forgiving, Experience, Teach, Love Sick

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

- Jules Breton

source: Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

topic: Giving, Experience, Modesty

The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

- Jules Henry

topic: Men, Self, Experience, Culture Change

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

- Jules Verne

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mistake, Science, Experience

Experience is the teacher of all things.

- Julius Caesar

source: "Commentarii de Bello Civili" by Julius Caesar,

topic: Life, Teacher, Experience

... you can either ask the question or experience the answer ...

- Kalki Bhagavan

topic: Experience, Answers

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

- Karl Marx

topic: Happiness, People, Experience, Inner Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

- Kathleen Winsor

topic: Hands, Experience, Firsts

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

- Kathy Reichs

source: Kathy Reichs (2015). “Grave Secrets”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mistake, Experience, Valuable

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

- Koichi Tanaka

topic: Experience, World, Able

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

- Konosuke Matsushita

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Experience, Lateral Thinking

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

- Laurie Faria Stolarz

topic: Greatness, Experience, Screw Ups

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.24, eKitap Projesi

topic: Experience, Guides

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

- Leslie Caron

topic: Experience, Encounters, Her Beauty

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Hands, Experience, Icy

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

- Louise Hay

topic: Experience, Responsible, Creating Our Future

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

- Lynda Bellingham

topic: Trying, Experience, Why Me

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

topic: Experience, Life Experience

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

- Madeleine Stowe

topic: Feelings, Gentleman, Experience

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

topic: People, Experience, Rich

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

- Mandy Patinkin

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Experience, Influence

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Experience

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

- Margaret Oliphant

source: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

topic: People, Experience

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

topic: Wisdom, Experience, Information

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

- Mark Twain

topic: Experience, Findings, Supposing, Quip, Supposing That

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Words Of Wisdom, Experience

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

- Marlena De Blasi

source: Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

topic: Wall, Long, Experience, Gauntlet, Merciful

He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.

- Martin Israel

topic: Darkness, Experience, Stronger, Traverse

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: Education, Experience, Lessons, Valuable Lessons

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

- Mary Hunter Austin

source: 1903 The Land of Little Rain,'The Basket Maker'.

topic: Fashion, Hair, Experience

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Age, Experience, Generations

The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

- May Sarton

topic: People, Experience, Helping

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

- Michael Crichton

topic: Taken, Clothes, Experience, Invigorating, Daily Routines

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

- Michael Eisner

topic: Life, Failure, Experience

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

- Michael Tilson Thomas

topic: Communication, Experience, Together, Good Experiences

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Experience, Littles, Way, Mother Nature, Earth And Nature

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Mother, Experience

In music, silence is more important than sound.

- Miles Davis

topic: Silence, Important, Experience

Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.

- Ming-Dao Deng

topic: Giving, Experience, Giving Back

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

- Minna Antrim

source: William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

topic: Teacher, Cynical, Experience, Good Teacher, Short Teacher

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

- Moon Unit Zappa

topic: Book, Experience, Add

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

- Muhammad Abduh

topic: Men, Experience, Facts

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

- Naomi Judd

topic: Giving, Experience, Tests

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

- Naoto Fukasawa

topic: Design, Experience, Needs

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Experience, Study, Cherries

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: People, Experience, Use

If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Experience, Want, You Choose

Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Life, Opportunity, Experience

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

- Niklaus Wirth

source: "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM 14 (4), April 1971.

topic: Choices, Experience, Example

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

- Olive Schreiner

topic: Experience, Outsiders, Action

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.

- Oliver Stone

topic: Thinking, Past, Experience

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

- Oliver Stone

topic: Real, Men, Experience

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

- Omarosa Manigault

topic: Experience, Add, Looks