Of Experience Quotes

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A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

I have learned from my own experience that if you work hard you will succeed.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.