quotes about Experience
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
-- A. R. Ammons -
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 -
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...
-- Abraham Maslow -
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
-- Agnetha FaltskogSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
-- Aishwarya Rai BachchanSource : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
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 -
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 -
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problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...
-- Alice MillerSource : Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.104, Basic Books
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
-- Alice Walker -
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 WittSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 TateSource : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
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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 -
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 -
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
-- Amy Grant -
Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
-- Amy Poehler -
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 -
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
-- Andy Rooney -
There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.
-- Anne TruittSource : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
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The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
-- Antoni Tapies -
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
-- April GreimanSource : April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
-- Arjuna ArdaghSource : Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library
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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 -
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 TautouSource : Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
-- Barbra Streisand -
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To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
-- Bayard Taylor -
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93
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Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
-- Benjamin Minge Duggar -
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
-- Bernard MalamudSource : 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20
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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 -
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
-- Booth Tarkington -
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 -
All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.
-- Bruce Laingen -
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The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.
-- Bruce Tognazzini -
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
-- Byron Katie -
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
-- Carolee SchneemannSource : Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.131, MIT Press
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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 -
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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 WrightSource : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.109, A&C Black
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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 -
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 YeagerSource : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
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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 -
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff -
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 StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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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 -
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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 -
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 -
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.
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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 DonoghueSource : 1986 We Irish.
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
-- Denis Waitley -
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 -
I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
-- Dominique Swain -
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 -
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If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.
-- Doug Rader -
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 TrumbullSource : "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
-- Edgar Degas -
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 ZwickSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
-- Eric Hoffer -
To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
-- Eric Hoffer -
We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
-- Eric MaiselSource : Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.204, New World Library
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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
-- Ernst MachSource : Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.197, Cambridge University Press
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Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
-- F. R. LeavisSource : 1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.
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Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
-- Fanny FernSource : Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.15
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
-- Francis Bacon -
We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
-- Frank McCourt -
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 -
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
-- George Eliot -
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
-- George Santayana -
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 -
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
-- Georges ClemenceauSource : "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.
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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 -
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 JampolskySource : Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts
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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 -
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
-- H. G. Wells -
Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are........
-- Harold Homer Anderson -
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -