Experience Quotes

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.
– Alex Comfort
The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in Lost Light is about a weak link in the chain.
– Michael Connelly
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
– Jimmy Connors
The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.
– Jo Coudert
I did two movies with Elvis, and both times not only was he was an absolute joy, but the experience itself was wonderful. He was extremely professional--always on time, knew his lines, and was very much a part of the cast, never pulling rank as the star.
– Yvonne Craig
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
– Salvador Dali
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
– John Dean
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
– John Denver
It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
– Johnny Depp
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
– John Dewey
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
– John Dewey
His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
– Emily Dickinson
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
– E. L. Doctorow
Actors have always done well playing the bad guys in movies. Audiences enjoy bad guys because through these characters, normal people are able to experience, vicariously, what its like to be vicious, nasty, and amoral. Kindness is not rewarded very much as far as drama is concerned.
– Michael Douglas
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
– Samuel Dash
A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience. But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it.
– Marcia Davenport
I try to give my gymnasts all I know and all my experience. I show them that they have to think and live gymnastics, and show their personality through gymnastics.
– Yelena Davydova
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
– Shannen Doherty
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
– Larry Dossey
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
– Norman Douglas
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
– Allen Dulles
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
– Raymond Duncan
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
– Abba Eban
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
– Mary Baker Eddy
I believe that when somebody crosses over they are aware and have total knowledge of the experience, situation and people involved.
– John Edward
In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
– John Edward
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
– Albert Einstein
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
– Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
– Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
– Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
– Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
– Albert Einstein
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.
– Will Eisner
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
– George Eliot
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
– George Eliot
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
– Kim Elizabeth
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
– Desiderius Erasmus
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
– Eknath Easwaran
I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.
– Jennifer Ellison
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
– Bergen Evens
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.
– Colin Farrell
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
– William Feather
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
– Suzanne Fields
Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
– Harvey S. Firestone
Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.
– John Fletcher
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
– Henry Ford
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
– E. M. Forster
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
– Benjamin Franklin
I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
– Sigmund Freud
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
– Bill Frist
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
– Robert Fulghum
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
– Donna Fargo
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
– Joseph Farrell
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
– Debbi Fields
That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their consciousness. All we have is the mall and the video rental shop; that's our cultural experience, our museums.
– Karen Finley
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better then anticipated.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I was a banquet waiter at the Beverly Hilton hotel. You learn a lot when you're in the service industry-the jerks of the world really come to the fore. It's a valuable learning experience to be in the position where you're of service to someone who sometimes doesn't even know you're there.
– Andy Garcia
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
– Bill Gates
Back surgery isn't a pleasant experience. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and I think my back surgery aggravated the arthritis.
– Barry Gibb
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
– William Gibson
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
– William E. Gladstone
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
– Ellen Glasgow
Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.
– John Glover
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
– Gail Godwin
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
– Harry Golden
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
– William Golding
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
– Ellen Goodman
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
– Amy Grant
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
– Amy Grant
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.
– Robert Graves
What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?
– Frederick the Great
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
– Matthew Green
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making.
– Alan Greenspan
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientists do their best work when they are in their early years. Writers' skills don't necessarily decay; if they can keep their interests and hopes alive (like Jack Williamson), their experience allows them greater depths to explore.
– James Gunn
People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
– Sarah Michelle Gellar
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
– Alan Gregg
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
– Bede Griffiths
Someone had got stung by a man-o-war once, and I peed on their leg. That's the extent of my lifeguard experience. That was it. It was a pretty tame beach in many ways.
– Jake Gyllenhaal
I have available to me all of the tools of my musical experience.
– Herbie Hancock
Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.
– Herbie Hancock
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
– Elizabeth Hardwick
I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
– Tom Hayden
The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.
– Tom Hayden
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
– William Hazlitt
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
– Patrick Henry
Body experience... is the centre of creation.
– Barbara Hepworth
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
– Frank Herbert
The whole experience is rising to the challenge every time. You never know what might happen. You might be talking to the future world champion.
– Damon Hill
You learn by experience, and overcoming setbacks make you stronger and means you are prepared for any eventuality. Now I am who I am, slightly batty in some ways, but in other ways fairly level-headed.
– Damon Hill
When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experience in the theater and I was enchanted with it. It transported me to another world-you might say that I was stage-struck. I was mesmerized by the stage.
– Al Hirschfeld
I finally decided to synthetize another sample of LSD. At the end of the synthesis, something very strange happened. I got into a dreamlike condition, in which all of my surrounding was transforming. My experience of reality had changed and it was rather agreeable. In any case, I left the laboratory, went home, lay down and enjoyed a nice dreamlike state which then passed away.
– Albert Hofmann