Of Experience Quotes
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.
most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.
A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.
You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.
