Experience Quotes

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
– Sonia Sotomayor
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.
– Tori Spelling
When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.
– Mayer Hawthorne
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
– David Antin
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.
– Jo Nesbo
When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
– Vin Diesel
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
– Allen Klein
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
– Charles Stanley
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
– Mitch Daniels
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
– Jasper Johns
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?
– Charlie Kaufman
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
– Chester Bennington
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
– Eddie Van Halen
When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
– Jennifer Lopez
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
– Ron Wyden
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
– Leslie Fiedler
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.
– Roger Clemens
When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
– Al Yankovic
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
– Kathryn Bigelow
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
– Jane Smiley
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
– Shirley MacLaine
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
– Brian Tracy
Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
– Rachael Ray
What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
– Paul Feig
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
– David Ogden Stiers
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
– Tracey Emin
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.
– Tony Campolo
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
– George Will
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
– Dave Eggers
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
– Max Lucado
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
– Josh Radnor
Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.
– Jason Mraz
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
– Henry David Thoreau
We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.
– Tom Felton
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
– Jeff Bezos
We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
– Ron Chernow
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
– George Bernard Shaw
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
– George Saunders
We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
– Margaret J. Wheatley
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
– Carl Jung
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.
– Charles Schumer
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
– Marco Rubio
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
– Bashar al-Assad
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
– Brian Eno
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
– Emil Zatopek
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
– Helmut Jahn
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.
– Rob Sheffield
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
– Martin Scorsese
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
– Simon Mainwaring
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.
– Richard Russo
Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
– Francesca Annis
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
– Bashar al-Assad
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
– Arnold Bennett
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
– Vaclav Klaus
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
– Mos Def
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
– Charles Stanley
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
– Christopher Hitchens
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
– Jack Nicklaus
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
– James Taylor
These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
– Lucy Powell
There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
– Diablo Cody
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
– David Duchovny
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
– Vera Farmiga
There's no experience like on-the-job training.
– Hank Azaria
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
– Michelle Bachelet
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.
– Kim Cattrall
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
– Edward Abbey
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
– Rebecca West
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
– Gary Gygax
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
– Marquis de Sade
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
– George Washington
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.
– Confucius
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
– Bram Stoker
There are some things you only learn through experience.
– Joe Namath
There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.
– Joyce Meyer
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
– Umberto Eco
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
– Charles Schumer
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
– Robert Carlyle
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
– Jeffrey Kluger
There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.
– Kevin O'Leary
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
– Erwin Schrodinger
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
– George Santayana
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
– Francesca Annis
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
– Daisaku Ikeda
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
– Sir William Osler
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
– Marissa Mayer
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.
– Hugh Mackay
The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.
– Curt Schilling
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
– Muhammad Iqbal
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
– Henrik Ibsen
The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
– Shirley MacLaine
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
– Frank McCourt
The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
– Simon Mainwaring
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
– Lord Acton
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
– Ninon de L'Enclos
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
– Christa McAuliffe
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
– Muhammad Iqbal