Experience Quotes

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
– Joan Chen
Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
– Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
– David Crystal
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
– Al Gore
As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.
– Timothy Olyphant
Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.
– Colin Farrell
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
– Chaim Potok
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
– Carol Kane
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
– Mike Myers
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.
– Wayne White
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.
– Hans Kung
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
– Maria Monk
After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.
– Shay Mitchell
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
– Mary Pipher
Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
– Evangeline Lilly
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
– Kate Bosworth
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
– Diane Keaton
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
– Steve Jobs
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
– Lewis Thomas
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
– Niklaus Wirth
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
– George Santayana
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
– Helmut Jahn
Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.
– Robert Tew
You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.
– Robert Tew
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
– James Cook