Of Experience Quotes
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.
I think that like most people I know, I have a range of views, but they are rooted in my values and experience.
I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.
Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.
I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.
I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.
The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.
Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.
We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.
Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
