Experience Quotes

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

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.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.