Experience Quotes

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.