Experience Quotes

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.