Experience Quotes

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.