Of Experience Quotes

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

This is a huge decision [to choose advisers and Secretary of State]. This is where he [Donald Trump] has the least experience and will have to rely on people with experience.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

I ended up being the 43rd president of the United States. It was an awesome experience, and I'm glad I did it.

We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

Nature is where I feel most comfortable; it's where I find my balance. I would like my kids and all future generations to have the chance to experience nature as I did.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.