Of Experience Quotes

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

I've seen people wearing clothes that don't look good on them, but they're really loving those clothes and the experience of wearing those clothes. Fine. At the end of the day, it's fashion.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

It's important to me that I don't take myself too seriously and I have fun with every experience in life. That is the whole point.

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.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.

I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

I'm looking forward to playing against all of them. I think all of them are great, they all have experience and they all are starters. It's going to be fun to go up against them.

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.