Of Experience Quotes

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.

When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.