Experience Quotes

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

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.

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.