Experience Quotes

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I learn from experience.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.