Of Experience Quotes
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.
I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.
The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.