Experience Quotes

There are some things you only learn through experience.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'

It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.