Of Experience Quotes

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.

You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

Experience is a safe guide.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.