Of Experience Quotes

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.