| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Will Rogers | Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.  | 86 |
| Deepak Chopra | Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. | 101 |
| e. e. cummings | Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. | 101 |
| Woody Allen | Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. | 101 |
| Andre Gide | It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. | 101 |
| Jeff Bezos | 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. | 101 |
| Julius Caesar | Experience is the teacher of all things. | 101 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. | 101 |
| Al Gore | 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. | 101 |
| Bessie Coleman | I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. | 101 |
| Brennan Manning | My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am. | 101 |
| Brian Greene | Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. | 101 |
| Delta Goodrem | Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.' | 101 |
| Dita Von Teese | Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! | 101 |
| Eric Kandel | The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. | 101 |
| Flannery O'Connor | Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. | 101 |
| Fred Perry | Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. | 101 |
| Greg LeMond | Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. | 101 |
| Gustavo Dudamel | It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. | 101 |
| Ian Mckellen | Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. | 101 |
| Isaac Marion | Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. | 101 |
| Jack Kevorkian | My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. | 101 |
| John Milton | Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. | 101 |
| Laura Schlessinger | Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. | 101 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. | 101 |
| Pete Seeger | Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. | 101 |
| Queen Latifah | I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. | 101 |
| Robert Fulghum | 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. | 101 |
| Russell Crowe | While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore. | 101 |
| Steve Wynn | What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises. | 101 |
| Terry Riley | It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. | 101 |
| Tim O'Brien | The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. | 101 |
| Vance Joy | Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience. | 101 |
| Vernon Law | Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. | 101 |
| A. R. Rahman | Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. | 101 |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. | 101 |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali | My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. | 101 |
| Ben Elliot | A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. | 101 |
| Brendan Myers | It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. | 101 |
| Charles de Secondat | But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. | 101 |
| Charles Francis Richter | As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. | 101 |
| Charles Ives | There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. | 101 |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism. | 101 |
| Christian Slater | Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement. | 101 |
| Conrad Anker | Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale. | 101 |
| Daniel Tammet | Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise. | 101 |
| Debra Winger | I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? | 101 |
| Eleanor Catton | To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. | 101 |
| Gary Ross | I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. | 101 |
| Jenny McCarthy | Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care. | 101 |
| Jet Li | While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience. | 101 |
| John W. Gardner | Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. | 101 |
| Kate Bosworth | It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair. | 101 |
| Laura Marling | Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. | 101 |
| Linda Thompson | Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. | 101 |
| Laura Osnes | I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M. | 101 |
| Magnus Carlsen | I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick. | 101 |
| Phil Schiller | When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with. | 101 |
| Ruta Sepetys | New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. | 101 |
| Sebastian Stan | The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play. | 101 |
| Summer Sanders | To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. | 101 |
| Todd Barry | I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. | 101 |
| Tom Baker | I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness. | 101 |
| Tom Scholz | 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict. | 101 |
| Trey Anastasio | I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. | 101 |
| Wallis Simpson | A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. | 101 |
| Walter Wriston | Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. | 101 |
| Anne-Marie Duff | As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better. | 101 |
| Caroline Leavitt | Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope. | 101 |
| Chris Robinson | With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you. | 101 |
| Charlie Hunnam | I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. | 101 |
| Dave Sitek | Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains. | 101 |
| E. L. Konigsburg | I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind. | 101 |
| Ella Henderson | I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic. | 101 |
| Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100. | 101 |
| Jim Lee | Nick Cardy's work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio. | 101 |
| Lou Gramm | We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me. | 101 |
| Mary Wesley | Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. | 101 |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like. | 101 |
| Neil Kurshan | It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children. | 101 |
| Paul Scheer | I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend. | 101 |
| Phil Daniels | It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. | 101 |
| Stuart Rose | I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? | 101 |
| Suzanne Fields | 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. | 101 |
| Willard Boyle | It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time. | 101 |
| Anthony Rizzo | I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine. | 101 |
| Bill Ackman | Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. | 101 |
| Bruce Babbitt | No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience. | 101 |
| Carol Kane | 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. | 101 |
| Colman Domingo | It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine. | 101 |
| David Nail | Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them. | 101 |
| Debbi Fields | 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. | 101 |
| Doug Jones | I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience. | 101 |
| Georgia Holt | There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like. | 101 |
| Giacomo Leopardi | Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. | 101 |
| Jimmy Connors | Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. | 101 |
| Kelly Carlson | I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is fun, and everyone is in a good mood; they are happy, and they let it go. I like that. It is refreshing to me. | 101 |
| Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II | It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. | 101 |
| Marya Hornbacher | It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place. | 101 |
| Meg Rosoff | Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly. | 101 |
| Michael Arrington | One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. | 101 |
| Muriel Rukeyser | Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. | 101 |
| Regina King | You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever. | 101 |
| Roman Coppola | Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. | 101 |
| Russell Hoban | Explorers have to be ready to die lost. | 101 |
| Alexandra Guarnaschelli | I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. | 101 |
| Andrea Jung | There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? | 101 |
| Aubrey O'Day | You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. | 101 |
| Bruce Greenwood | You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie. | 101 |
| Clarence Day | Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. | 101 |
| Dave Navarro | There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. | 101 |
| David Dobkin | Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other. | 101 |
| Dennis Franz | I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule. | 101 |
| Diana Krall | You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. | 101 |
| Eknath Easwaran | 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. | 101 |
| Eliza Farnham | The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. | 101 |
| Gene Oliver | My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. | 101 |
| James Beard | Food is our common ground, a universal experience. | 101 |
| Joseph Jarman | But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. | 101 |
| Lynda Carter | I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy. | 101 |
| Maria Monk | 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. | 101 |
| Marisa Tomei | I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job. | 101 |
| Robert Taylor | I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in awe of BBC. I've worked for there, and that was a great experience. | 101 |
| Simon Bolivar | Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. | 101 |
| Ann Turner | 'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey. | 101 |
| April Gornik | On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity. | 101 |
| Chris Cannon | Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. | 101 |
| Chris Weitz | 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. | 101 |
| Christopher Abbott | It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do. | 101 |
| Craig Kelly | While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience. | 101 |
| Marcel Dionne | People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. | 101 |
| Roger Ascham | It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. | 101 |
| Sid Meier | Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers. | 101 |
| Susan Collins | Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service. | 101 |
| Ally Sheedy | My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. | 101 |
| Amandla Stenberg | As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire 'Hunger Games' community for their support and loyalty. | 101 |
| Anna Jameson | All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. | 101 |
| B. J. Daniels | I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me. | 101 |
| Jhonen Vasquez | I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain. | 101 |
| Shoshana Zuboff | Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. | 101 |
| Steven Amsterdam | Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen. | 101 |
| Abel Korzeniowski | Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. | 101 |
| Charles Simic | Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. | 101 |
| Jed S. Rakoff | In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial. | 101 |
| Raymond Duncan | The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. | 101 |
| Alberto Moravia | In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. | 101 |
| Amanda Latona | I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience. | 101 |
| Josh Holloway | I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. | 101 |
| Justin Kirk | That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal. | 101 |
| Mark Poster | Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. | 101 |
| Michael Emerson | One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation. | 101 |
| Agustin Castillo | You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future. | 101 |
| Jay Hernandez | Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it. | 101 |
| Jeb Hensarling | You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience. | 101 |
| Jez Butterworth | I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later. | 101 |
| Mary Pipher | Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. | 101 |
| J. Carter Brown | No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. | 101 |
| Jason McCoy | I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche. | 101 |
| Janine Shepherd | We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment. | 101 |
| Jeff Carlson | I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good. | 101 |
| Jeff Healey | Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience. | 101 |
| Julie Adams | It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart. | 101 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' | 102 |
| Immanuel Kant | It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. | 102 |
| Denis Waitley | Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. | 102 |
| Albert Bandura | Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. | 102 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. | 102 |
| Ariana Grande | Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. | 102 |
| Bill Viola | The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image. | 102 |
| Cara Delevingne | When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others. | 102 |
| Chesley Sullenberger | There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. | 102 |
| Diane Kruger | Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good. | 102 |
| Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry. | 102 |
| Franz Wright | What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence. | 102 |
| Gloria Swanson | The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. | 102 |
| Greg Anderson | Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. | 102 |
| Hal Borland | Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. | 102 |
| Heraclitus | No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. | 102 |
| Issa Rae | It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique. | 102 |
| Jeff Buckley | I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience. | 102 |
| Jonathan Haidt | It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. | 102 |
| Kinky Friedman | Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. | 102 |
| Krista Tippett | Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems. | 102 |
| L. Lionel Kendrick | Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. | 102 |
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. | 102 |
| Natasha Trethewey | The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. | 102 |
| Norman Finkelstein | People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things. | 102 |
| Otto Dix | I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. | 102 |
| Sally Ride | All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. | 102 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. | 102 |
| Tracey Emin | 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. | 102 |
| Zoe Saldana | I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. | 102 |
| Anne Graham Lotz | When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things. | 102 |
| Auguste Rodin | Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. | 102 |
| Carol Ann Duffy | I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. | 102 |
| Charles Ives | A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. | 102 |
| Damien Rice | A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom. | 102 |
| David O. Russell | I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.' | 102 |
| Daniel Tammet | I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential. | 102 |
| Dominic Monaghan | I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. | 102 |
| Edward T. Hall | The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. | 102 |
| Frank McCourt | The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. | 102 |
| Fred Brooks | Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. | 102 |
| Gary Neville | I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. | 102 |
| Helmut Jahn | A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. | 102 |
| Henry Mintzberg | What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. | 102 |
| John Frusciante | The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. | 102 |
| John Legend | Experience is a great teacher. | 102 |
| Joseph Prince | The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain. | 102 |
| Karisma Kapoor | Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. | 102 |
| Kellin Quinn | When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends. | 102 |
| Lisa Edelstein | For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. | 102 |
| Ludacris | Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode. | 102 |
| Mae Jemison | Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. | 102 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas | I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. | 102 |
| Mike Myers | 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. | 102 |
| Nat Wolff | It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough. | 102 |
| Patrick Ness | I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers. | 102 |
| Philip Green | People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?' | 102 |
| Rainn Wilson | I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. | 102 |
| Rita Mae Brown | Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. | 102 |
| Roxane Gay | Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after. | 102 |
| Scott Thompson | I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. | 102 |
| Scott Weiland | Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. | 102 |
| Simon McBurney | My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say. | 102 |
| Tina Yothers | I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life. | 102 |
| Whitney Cummings | I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes. | 102 |
| Carol Leifer | My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' | 102 |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. | 102 |
| Laurence Housman | But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. | 102 |
| Luca Cordero di Montezemolo | 'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center. | 102 |
| Peter Hammill | The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. | 102 |
| Raul Julia | It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man. | 102 |
| Ryan Sheckler | My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities. | 102 |
| Sarah Lacy | The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. | 102 |
| Stanislav Grof | I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. | 102 |
| Travis Kalanick | Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. | 102 |
| Treat Williams | I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them. | 102 |
| William Kempe | I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. | 102 |
| William Nicholson | Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. | 102 |
| Abel Ferrara | Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. | 102 |
| Al Capp | Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. | 102 |
| Daniel Libeskind | Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. | 102 |
| Dree Hemingway | I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing. | 102 |
| Eugene Jarvis | To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. | 102 |
| Harry Callahan | Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters. | 102 |
| Kelsang Gyatso | The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. | 102 |
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine | Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. | 102 |
| Malaika Arora Khan | I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling. | 102 |
| Mike McCue | If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience. | 102 |
| Paul Mellon | Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. | 102 |
| Randa Abdel-Fattah | In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. | 102 |
| Tatyana Ali | I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road. | 102 |
| Wolfgang Petersen | Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away. | 102 |
| Alice Sebold | The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. | 102 |
| Barbara Hershey | Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience. | 102 |
| Brian Chesky | If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever. | 102 |
| Cameron Monaghan | I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom. | 102 |
| Daphne Koller | Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology. | 102 |
| Daria Werbowy | Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. | 102 |
| Dennis Franz | I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. | 102 |
| Jack Kingston | Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. | 102 |
| Paul Dudley White | We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. | 102 |
| Sete Gibernau | I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments. | 102 |
| Sherry Argov | Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities. | 102 |
| Adrien Brody | I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it. | 102 |
| Basil Hume | Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. | 102 |
| Craig Kelly | 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. | 102 |
| Jane Lynch | I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking. | 102 |
| Marion Ross | Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world. | 102 |
| Richard Owen | Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. | 102 |
| Roger Ascham | By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. | 102 |
| Susan Cheever | Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience. | 102 |
| Jacob Zuma | Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. | 102 |
| Justin Chadwick | It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema. | 102 |
| Roger Bacon | Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. | 102 |
| Jacques Roumain | Experience is the cane of the blind. | 102 |
| Jesse Metcalfe | I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well. | 102 |
| Jon Scieszka | I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade. | 102 |
| Art Bell | The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith. | 102 |
| Janet Echelman | It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers. | 102 |
| Justin Baldoni | People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift. | 102 |
| Johnny Isakson | Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. | 102 |
| Jemima Khan | In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. | 102 |
| Wayne Dyer | The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience. | 103 |
| Alain Ducasse | It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience. | 103 |
| Brendon Urie | The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience. | 103 |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. | 103 |
| Common | I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing. | 103 |
| Danica Patrick | I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time. | 103 |
| Edith Wharton | Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. | 103 |
| Felix Adler | Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. | 103 |
| Fergie | I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. | 103 |
| Flannery O'Connor | Conviction without experience makes for harshness. | 103 |
| George Henry Lewes | Science is the systematic classification of experience. | 103 |
| Isaac D'Israeli | The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. | 103 |
| James Russell Lowell | One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. | 103 |
| Karen Horney | When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling. | 103 |
| Karl Kraus | Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. | 103 |
| Lewis Thomas | 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. | 103 |
| Lilly Singh | I think what people like about my channel is that I am not perfect. I always point to my pimple, my bad hair day... people relate to that. They are watching somebody who is exactly like them and talking about things that they experience as well. | 103 |
| Linda Ronstadt | In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more. | 103 |
| Manny Pacquiao | With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy. | 103 |
| Martha Washington | I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. | 103 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. | 103 |
| Neale Donald Walsch | The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' | 103 |
| Nigel Lythgoe | With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul. | 103 |
| Rachel Nichols | How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point. | 103 |
| Ram Dass | It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. | 103 |
| Steve Gleason | Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. | 103 |
| Thomas Wolfe | Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. | 103 |
| Timothy Noah | Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. | 103 |
| Tom Wilson | If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one. | 103 |
| Umberto Eco | To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. | 103 |
| Willem Dafoe | In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. | 103 |
| Aimee Bender | Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it. | 103 |
| Aisha Tyler | The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. | 103 |
| Anthony Burgess | I didn't think; I experimented. | 103 |
| Axl Rose | I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money. | 103 |
| Brittany Snow | I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. | 103 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals. | 103 |
| Elisabeth Shue | I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength. | 103 |
| Eric Stoltz | Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on. | 103 |
| Frank McCourt | First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family. | 103 |
| Gina Carano | A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually. | 103 |
| Jack Hanna | The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes. | 103 |
| Javier Bardem | I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. | 103 |
| Joseph Prince | I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt. | 103 |
| Minna Antrim | Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. | 103 |
| Natalie Martinez | I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that. | 103 |
| Paul Reiser | But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over. | 103 |
| Ralph Fiennes | Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. | 103 |
| Richard Flanagan | I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points. | 103 |
| Srikumar Rao | When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such. | 103 |
| William Styron | Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. | 103 |
| Bob Geldof | But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. | 103 |
| E. L. James | If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. | 103 |
| Glenn Hoddle | As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball. | 103 |
| James Salter | You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable. | 103 |
| Jared Leto | Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience. | 103 |
| John Polkinghorne | If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. | 103 |
| Levi Strauss | If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. | 103 |
| Lucille Roybal-Allard | Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. | 103 |
| Lauren London | Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life. | 103 |
| Megan Smith | The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. | 103 |
| Ronald Fisher | I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. | 103 |
| Rosalind Wiseman | The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. | 103 |
| Shay Mitchell | 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. | 103 |
| St. Vincent | A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing. | 103 |
| Tom Chatfield | Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level. | 103 |
| Chester Bennington | 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. | 103 |
| David Chipperfield | I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. | 103 |
| Joaquin Phoenix | I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. | 103 |
| Joe Bastianich | The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell. | 103 |
| Julian Bond | I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. | 103 |
| Kevin Chapman | The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences. | 103 |
| Kim Elizabeth | 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. | 103 |
| Maurice Chevalier | The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. | 103 |
| Alan Vega | Experience really does make you better, man. | 103 |
| Dana Plato | I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right. | 103 |
| Daphne Oz | I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back. | 103 |
| Michael Crawford | Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. | 103 |
| Michael Eisner | Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. | 103 |
| Roberta Williams | The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had. | 103 |
| Susan Powter | The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich! | 103 |
| Antoine Predock | Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' | 103 |
| Max Frisch | Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. | 103 |
| Jerome Bruner | There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. | 103 |
| Juno Temple | But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films. | 103 |
| Randolph Bourne | Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. | 103 |
| John Baldacci | All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. | 103 |
| Richard Branson | So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. | 104 |
| Tony Robbins | Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. | 104 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. | 104 |
| Dwayne Johnson | I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again. | 104 |
| Alan Rickman | From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other. | 104 |
| Barbara De Angelis | The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. | 104 |
| Ban Ki-moon | I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights. | 104 |
| Carl Rogers | In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. | 104 |
| Chris Hemsworth | For me, life is about experience and being a good person. | 104 |
| Christy Turlington | It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. | 104 |
| Chuck Close | I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. | 104 |
| Dag Hammarskjold | Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. | 104 |
| David Lynch | Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. | 104 |
| Gael Garcia Bernal | When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. | 104 |
| Guy Laliberte | Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like. | 104 |
| Hans Hofmann | The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. | 104 |
| Herbert Read | Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. | 104 |
| Imtiaz Ali | Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people. | 104 |
| Ingrid Newkirk | Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. | 104 |
| Jack Kevorkian | As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. | 104 |
| John Heywood | If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. | 104 |
| Jon Bon Jovi | Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. | 104 |
| L. Ron Hubbard | The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. | 104 |
| Lupita Nyong'o | It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. | 104 |
| Paul Walker | Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave. | 104 |
| Philip Roth | Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. | 104 |
| Prince William | It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well. | 104 |
| Tommy Lee | It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear. | 104 |
| V. S. Naipaul | Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. | 104 |
| Virginia Postrel | European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. | 104 |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. | 104 |
| Bipasha Basu | I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it. | 104 |
| Catherine Tate | How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones. | 104 |
| Earl Wilson | Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | 104 |
| Edward Teller | My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. | 104 |
| Erin Morgenstern | You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. | 104 |
| Gary Gygax | 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 agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. | 104 |
| Joe Namath | There are some things you only learn through experience. | 104 |
| Karen Thompson Walker | Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. | 104 |
| Matthew Perry | A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength. | 104 |
| Mike Myers | I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. | 104 |
| Nev Schulman | Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. | 104 |
| Rachel Cusk | As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. | 104 |
| Sacha Guitry | Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. | 104 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. | 104 |
| Wladimir Klitschko | Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that. | 104 |
| Andrew Cohen | Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. | 104 |
| Diane Keaton | Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. | 104 |
| Jenna Morasca | As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. | 104 |
| Jane Velez-Mitchell | The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror. | 104 |
| Lascelles Abercrombie | 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. | 104 |
| Lucille Roybal-Allard | Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. | 104 |
| Rob Kardashian | I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities. | 104 |
| Ted Dekker | For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? | 104 |
| Mireille Guiliano | Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted. | 104 |
| Tracee Ellis Ross | Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be. | 104 |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti | For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. | 104 |
| Amanda Hocking | I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun. | 104 |
| Antoine Predock | The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. | 104 |
| Richard Cecil | God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. | 104 |
| Sean O'Casey | I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. | 104 |
| Mukesh Ambani | I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across. | 104 |
| James Henry Breasted | It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. | 104 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. | 105 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. | 105 |
| Mao Zedong | If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. | 105 |
| Sai Baba | Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. | 105 |
| Amy Grant | But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. | 105 |
| Bo Burnham | I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience. | 105 |
| Bonnie Tyler | I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered. | 105 |
| Brian Greene | I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. | 105 |
| Charles Stanley | 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. | 105 |
| Chuck Close | Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. | 105 |
| Curt Schilling | 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. | 105 |
| Dawn French | I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. | 105 |
| Debbie Harry | I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all. | 105 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised. | 105 |
| Erwin Schrodinger | 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. | 105 |
| Frederick the Great | What is the good of experience if you do not reflect? | 105 |
| Gabe Newell | People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers. | 105 |
| Gary Zukav | You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them. | 105 |
| George Sand | Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. | 105 |
| Harold S. Geneen | In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. | 105 |
| John Updike | Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. | 105 |
| Kenneth Branagh | I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well. | 105 |
| Kurt Russell | I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is. | 105 |
| M. Scott Peck | The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. | 105 |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. | 105 |
| Max Lucado | 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. | 105 |
| Mel Gibson | I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. | 105 |
| Oscar Levant | Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. | 105 |
| Randy Pausch | Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. | 105 |
| Rene Redzepi | Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. | 105 |
| Tadao Ando | When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. | 105 |
| Tom Freston | People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks. | 105 |
| Apolo Ohno | Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. | 105 |
| Archibald MacLeish | There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. | 105 |
| Charlie Parker | Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. | 105 |
| Christopher Meloni | I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding. | 105 |
| Elyn Saks | My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission. | 105 |
| Emil Zatopek | 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. | 105 |
| Emilio Estevez | There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. | 105 |
| Jason Silva | Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. | 105 |
| Jeff Miller | The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. | 105 |
| Karen Kain | To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public. | 105 |
| Loudon Wainwright III | I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it. | 105 |
| Manfred von Richthofen | I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. | 105 |
| Rob Sheffield | At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.' | 105 |
| Agnetha Faltskog | My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. | 105 |
| Ali MacGraw | It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am. | 105 |
| Alice Miller | The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. | 105 |
| Allen Klein | 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. | 105 |
| Andrew Cohen | When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. | 105 |
| Annette Funicello | Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. | 105 |
| Jake Roberts | Every moment is an experience. | 105 |
| Jeanette Winterson | However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. | 105 |
| Jon Anderson | We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience. | 105 |
| Juliette Binoche | I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way. | 105 |
| Laurel Clark | I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. | 105 |
| Pauline Phillips | If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. | 105 |
| Rajneesh | What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love. | 105 |
| Joaquin Phoenix | For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not. | 105 |
| Armistead Maupin | Being in love is the only transcendent experience. | 105 |
| Arnold Bennett | There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. | 105 |
| Clarence Day | Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. | 105 |
| Jennifer Egan | I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down. | 105 |
| Joseph Roux | Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. | 105 |
| John Barrowman | I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year. | 105 |
| Josh Holloway | It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time. | 105 |
| C. S. Lewis | If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. | 106 |
| Helen Keller | Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. | 106 |
| Oscar Wilde | Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. | 106 |
| George Santayana | The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. | 106 |
| Joseph Campbell | I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. | 106 |
| Salvador Dali | Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. | 106 |
| Nas | Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. | 106 |
| Jerry Seinfeld | If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience. | 106 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life. | 106 |
| Alex Ferguson | The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. | 106 |
| Andrea Bocelli | My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play. | 106 |
| Ben Stein | Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. | 106 |
| Bryant H. McGill | It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. | 106 |
| Ellen Key | At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. | 106 |
| Francis Chan | If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples. | 106 |
| George Herbert Mead | Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. | 106 |
| Greg Anderson | Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! | 106 |
| Linda Ronstadt | I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. | 106 |
| Lupita Nyong'o | It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. | 106 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. | 106 |
| Nobu Matsuhisa | Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. | 106 |
| Peter Thiel | If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done. | 106 |
| Sheryl Crow | The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. | 106 |
| Sonia Sotomayor | I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. | 106 |
| Terry Bradshaw | You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. | 106 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. | 106 |
| Walter Pater | Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. | 106 |
| Ashwin Sanghi | It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story. | 106 |
| Barry Sanders | It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization. | 106 |
| Bryce Dallas Howard | Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am. | 106 |
| John O'Donohue | The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. | 106 |
| John Shelby Spong | Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience. | 106 |
| Michael Palin | The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. | 106 |
| Michael Shermer | In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. | 106 |
| Sam Shepard | In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. | 106 |
| Sebastian Vettel | It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty. | 106 |
| Susan Orlean | Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. | 106 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. | 106 |
| Bernadette Peters | It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience. | 106 |
| Charles E. Wilson | In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. | 106 |
| David D. Burns | Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. | 106 |
| Jeanette Winterson | Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. | 106 |
| Paul Wesley | The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures. | 106 |
| Balthus | Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. | 106 |
| Jayne Mansfield | Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy. | 106 |
| Julianna Margulies | I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow. | 106 |
| John Barrowman | 'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters. | 106 |
| John Stuart Mill | Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. | 107 |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. | 107 |
| Wayne Dyer | You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. | 107 |
| Woody Allen | It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. | 107 |
| Alain Ducasse | Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. | 107 |
| Alfred Adler | The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. | 107 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' | 107 |
| Dave Matthews | For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me. | 107 |
| Ellen Glasgow | 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. | 107 |
| Gretchen Rubin | Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way. | 107 |
| Henry James | Deep experience is never peaceful. | 107 |
| Katherine Jenkins | I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. | 107 |
| Louis Zamperini | I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die! | 107 |
| Milton Berle | Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name. | 107 |
| Monica Crowley | Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man. | 107 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. | 107 |
| Olivia Thirlby | 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. | 107 |
| Paul Stanley | A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch. | 107 |
| Samuel Smiles | The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. | 107 |
| Sharon Salzberg | Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. | 107 |
| Stephen Fry | Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. | 107 |
| Vinoba Bhave | We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps. | 107 |
| William E. Gladstone | 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. | 107 |
| Bill Rancic | Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity. | 107 |
| Emil Zatopek | If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. | 107 |
| Jonah Hill | I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience. | 107 |
| Robert Duvall | I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. | 107 |
| David Coverdale | 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. | 107 |
| Sanford I. Weill | I think we are a product of all our experiences. | 107 |
| Shannen Doherty | 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.' | 107 |
| Chrissie Hynde | In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life. | 107 |
| James Stephens | Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be. | 107 |
| Jennette McCurdy | I loved shooting 'iGo to Japan' because we got to be outside a lot, and our call times were really late because we had so many night scenes. It was pouring rain, so the cast would huddle together in between takes and drink hot chocolate. Shooting that episode was such a great bonding experience. | 107 |
| Antonin Scalia | 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. | 108 |
| Barbara De Angelis | When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. | 108 |
| Bill Bradley | The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. | 108 |
| Bill Maher | This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. | 108 |
| Brennan Manning | The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. | 108 |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 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. | 108 |
| Erykah Badu | Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. | 108 |
| Eva Green | I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. | 108 |
| George Foreman | I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what. | 108 |
| Hans Hofmann | My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. | 108 |
| Henry Adams | All experience is an arch, to build upon. | 108 |
| Khloe Kardashian | I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life. | 108 |
| Kim Cattrall | There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience. | 108 |
| Leonard Nimoy | Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. | 108 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. | 108 |
| Michael Bloomberg | No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. | 108 |
| Paul Cezanne | Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. | 108 |
| Penelope Cruz | All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. | 108 |
| Walter Benjamin | Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. | 108 |
| Amy Tan | I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs. | 108 |
| Erin Morgenstern | You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. | 108 |
| Evelyn Glennie | Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. | 108 |
| Georges Clemenceau | All that I know I learned after I was thirty. | 108 |
| Michelle Bachelet | My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot. | 108 |
| Randeep Hooda | Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously. | 108 |
| Amy Lee | There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience. | 108 |
| Jonas Salk | Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. | 108 |
| Marion Cotillard | If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living. | 108 |
| Jim Hodges | Color is an intense experience on its own. | 108 |
| Harriet Tubman | I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. | 109 |
| Simon Sinek | Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. | 109 |
| Vince Lombardi | Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. | 109 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable. | 109 |
| Kid Cudi | My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it. | 109 |
| Abigail Adams | Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. | 109 |
| William Osler | The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. | 109 |
| Bram Stoker | 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. | 109 |
| Daymond John | If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales. | 109 |
| Edward de Bono | We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. | 109 |
| Eric Kandel | The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. | 109 |
| Kate Winslet | Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character. | 109 |
| Kay Redfield Jamison | I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. | 109 |
| Margaret Fuller | Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. | 109 |
| Nolan Bushnell | Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty. | 109 |
| Paulo Freire | At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. | 109 |
| Thabo Mbeki | If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. | 109 |
| Tina Fey | For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. | 109 |
| Tracy Chapman | I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope. | 109 |
| Tullian Tchividjian | The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. | 109 |
| Winona Ryder | I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it. | 109 |
| Wolfgang Puck | For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience. | 109 |
| Brandon Boyd | There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light. | 109 |
| Doug Larson | The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. | 109 |
| Janet Jackson | I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. | 109 |
| John le Carre | I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. | 109 |
| Jonah Hill | I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg. | 109 |
| Lucy Powell | 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. | 109 |
| Rachel Cusk | I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood. | 109 |
| Margaret Chan | HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem. | 109 |
| Jeremy Renner | The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. | 109 |
| John Dewey | The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. | 110 |
| Louis C. K. | I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. | 110 |
| Ray Bradbury | The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. | 110 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It's such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love and fulfillment of another level. | 110 |
| Anthony Bourdain | Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. | 110 |
| Arnold Palmer | Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. | 110 |
| Bill Nighy | One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience. | 110 |
| Chinua Achebe | The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. | 110 |
| Colin Farrell | 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. | 110 |
| Heinrich Heine | Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. | 110 |
| Keith Haring | See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. | 110 |
| Kevin O'Leary | 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. | 110 |
| M. Scott Peck | Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. | 110 |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it. | 110 |
| Max Weber | Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. | 110 |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. | 110 |
| Pharrell Williams | It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything. | 110 |
| Rollo May | Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. | 110 |
| Wentworth Miller | I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. | 110 |
| Abby Wambach | During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective. | 110 |
| Antonio Damasio | When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes. | 110 |
| J. Michael Straczynski | There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge. | 110 |
| Albert Einstein | The only source of knowledge is experience. | 111 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. | 111 |
| Albert Camus | You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. | 111 |
| Taylor Swift | You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. | 111 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. | 111 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay. | 111 |
| Kevin Hart | Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through. | 111 |
| Ann Coulter | As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. | 111 |
| Carrie Underwood | I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it. | 111 |
| Chris Hadfield | There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself. | 111 |
| Eddie Van Halen | 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. | 111 |
| Edward Norton | A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. | 111 |
| Gerald R. Ford | History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. | 111 |
| Harry Houdini | But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years. | 111 |
| Henrik Ibsen | The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. | 111 |
| Horace | Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. | 111 |
| J. Paul Getty | In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. | 111 |
| Jack Canfield | People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence. | 111 |
| Jodie Foster | It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. | 111 |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn | Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another. | 111 |
| Seth Shostak | Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts. | 111 |
| Sharon Salzberg | In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it? | 111 |
| Simon Mainwaring | 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. | 111 |
| Stella Young | The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best. | 111 |
| Bipasha Basu | An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. | 111 |
| Junot Diaz | People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. | 111 |
| Madeleine M. Kunin | Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated. | 111 |
| Confucius | By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. | 112 |
| Aesop | Example is the best precept. | 112 |
| Johnny Depp | 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. | 112 |
| Tim Burton | A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. | 112 |
| Aleister Crowley | The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. | 112 |
| Curtis Jackson | STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself - the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want. | 112 |
| David Hockney | What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. | 112 |
| Fiona Apple | Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way. | 112 |
| Jon Bon Jovi | There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. | 112 |
| Lawrence M. Krauss | No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. | 112 |
| Lewis Mumford | Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. | 112 |
| Louise L. Hay | We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience. | 112 |
| Marina Abramovic | It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience. | 112 |
| Natalie Portman | Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. | 112 |
| Patrick Henry | I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. | 112 |
| Rufus Wainwright | I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. | 112 |
| Talib Kweli | You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience. | 112 |
| Ryan Holmes | Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience. | 112 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. | 113 |
| Virginia Woolf | Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. | 113 |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | All adventure is now reactionary. | 113 |
| Amy Grant | There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. | 113 |
| Andrea Bocelli | Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience. | 113 |
| Annie Besant | Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. | 113 |
| Ashton Kutcher | Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator. | 113 |
| Chris Evans | I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences. | 113 |
| Edward Abbey | There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. | 113 |
| Eric Clapton | I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. | 113 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. | 113 |
| Henry Louis Gates | So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. | 113 |
| Patti Smith | Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. | 113 |
| T.I. | Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical. | 113 |
| Tim Howard | Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience. | 113 |
| Zac Efron | Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes. | 113 |
| Jane McGonigal | Game designers are obsessed with emotion. How do we create the emotions that we want gamers to feel, and how can we really make it this intense, emotional experience? | 113 |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. | 113 |
| John Keats | Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. | 114 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. | 114 |
| Alicia Keys | Maturity and experience are part of my liberation. | 114 |
| Federico Fellini | Experience is what you get while looking for something else. | 114 |
| Marina Abramovic | I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own. | 114 |
| Thomas J. Watson | Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? | 114 |
| Gregory Bateson | All experience is subjective. | 114 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing. | 114 |
| John Piper | Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together. | 114 |
| Jennie Finch | You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. | 115 |
| Khalil Gibran | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. | 115 |
| Emily Dickinson | The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. | 115 |
| Immanuel Kant | Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. | 115 |
| Adam Savage | I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing. | 115 |
| Barbara De Angelis | In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. | 115 |
| Isadora Duncan | What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. | 115 |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it. | 115 |
| Khaled Hosseini | The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. | 115 |
| Lord Acton | 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. | 115 |
| Mike Krzyzewski | Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. | 115 |
| Trent Reznor | When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.' | 115 |
| Will Self | Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully. | 115 |
| Yehuda Berg | As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity. | 115 |
| A. E. Housman | Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. | 115 |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. | 115 |
| Miranda Kerr | What I like about modelling is that it has given me that opportunity to travel and experience different cultures, work with creative people, and now it's given me a voice, and with that voice hopefully I can do good things with it. | 115 |
| Susan Orlean | You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience. | 115 |
| Voltaire | Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? | 116 |
| Gloria Steinem | I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. | 116 |
| Pope John Paul II | The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. | 116 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready. | 116 |
| Jeff Bezos | If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. | 116 |
| Barbara De Angelis | Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. | 116 |
| Billy Joel | Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. | 116 |
| Bryan Cranston | I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. | 116 |
| Deepika Padukone | Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better. | 116 |
| Franklin P. Jones | Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | 116 |
| Jose Rizal | Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances. | 116 |
| Nick Vujicic | The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.' | 116 |
| Pink | I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way. | 116 |
| Roger Ebert | But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience. | 116 |
| Samuel Butler | Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. | 116 |
| Tim Allen | In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers. | 116 |
| William Feather | 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. | 116 |
| Michael Leunig | It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways. | 116 |
| John Locke | No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. | 117 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The noblest search is the search for excellence. | 117 |
| P. T. Barnum | No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. | 117 |
| Brian Greene | Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. | 117 |
| David Mamet | You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' | 117 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. | 117 |
| Kailash Satyarthi | From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles. | 117 |
| Peter Singer | Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. | 117 |
| Robert M. Pirsig | Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. | 117 |
| Trent Reznor | I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. | 117 |
| Viggo Mortensen | Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. | 117 |
| Audrey Hepburn | I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. | 118 |
| Deepak Chopra | Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. | 118 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. | 118 |
| Tony Robbins | 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. | 118 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. | 118 |
| Jimmy Carter | I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' | 118 |
| Joyce Meyer | I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. | 118 |
| Saint Ignatius | Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest. | 118 |
| Dave Matthews | I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic. | 118 |
| Gary Zukav | Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. | 118 |
| Henry Miller | All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. | 118 |
| Joseph Addison | If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. | 118 |
| Louise L. Hay | I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience. | 118 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. | 118 |
| Muhammad Yunus | In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income. | 118 |
| Tommy Chong | To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place. | 118 |
| Willie Nelson | I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around. | 118 |
| A. R. Ammons | Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. | 118 |
| Maya Angelou | I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. | 119 |
| Francis Bacon | Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. | 119 |
| Karl Marx | Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. | 119 |
| Malcolm X | Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. | 119 |
| Paulo Coelho | Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. | 119 |
| Ansel Adams | There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. | 119 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. | 119 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. | 119 |
| Alfred Adler | No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. | 119 |
| Andre Agassi | You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. | 119 |
| Arsene Wenger | Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together. | 119 |
| Isabel Allende | The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. | 119 |
| Mos Def | You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. | 119 |
| Amy Chua | A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college. | 119 |
| Joss Whedon | I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. | 119 |
| George Washington | Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. | 120 |
| Deepak Chopra | Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. | 120 |
| Douglas Adams | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | 120 |
| Elie Wiesel | Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. | 120 |
| John Stuart Mill | There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. | 120 |
| Joseph Campbell | I don't have to have faith, I have experience. | 120 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. | 120 |
| Woodrow Wilson | You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. | 120 |
| John Ruskin | Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. | 120 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. | 120 |
| W. Clement Stone | Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. | 120 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. | 120 |
| Harrison Ford | I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. | 120 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know. | 120 |
| George Washington | We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. | 121 |
| Aesop | Adventure is worthwhile. | 121 |
| Richard Bach | One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves. | 121 |
| Selena Gomez | I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love. | 121 |
| Tom Stoppard | Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. | 121 |
| Harrison Ford | I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience. | 121 |
| Marcel Duchamp | Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach. | 121 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 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. | 121 |
| William Ellery Channing | Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. | 121 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. | 121 |
| H. L. Mencken | Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. | 122 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. | 122 |
| John Steinbeck | It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. | 122 |
| Queen Elizabeth II | The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. | 122 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. | 122 |
| Emma Watson | But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. | 122 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. | 122 |
| Franklin P. Jones | Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | 122 |
| Howard Schultz | You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own. | 122 |
| Jennifer Lopez | I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better. | 122 |
| Sharon Salzberg | To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it. | 122 |
| T. D. Jakes | I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. | 122 |
| Saint Teresa of Avila | To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. | 123 |
| William James | If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. | 123 |
| Robert Baden-Powell | It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. | 123 |
| Gary Zukav | The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. | 123 |
| Sharon Salzberg | From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters. | 123 |
| Confucius | 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. | 124 |
| Helen Keller | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. | 124 |
| Francis Bacon | Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. | 124 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. | 124 |
| Brad Pitt | It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. | 124 |
| Steve Jobs | 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. | 125 |
| Aldous Huxley | Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. | 125 |
| Franz Kafka | 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. | 125 |
| George Bernard Shaw | If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. | 125 |
| Sigmund Freud | 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. | 125 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. | 125 |
| Milton Friedman | The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. | 125 |
| Ayrton Senna | And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. | 125 |
| Gary Zukav | Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth. | 125 |
| Marquis de Sade | 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. | 125 |
| Yoko Ono | People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom. | 125 |
| Bruce Springsteen | The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. | 126 |
| Carl Jung | We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. | 126 |
| Henry Rollins | As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. | 126 |
| Joseph Campbell | What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. | 126 |
| Tom Stoppard | I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. | 126 |
| Louise L. Hay | We are each responsible for all of our experiences. | 126 |
| Jane Campion | Tragedy makes you grow up. | 126 |
| Mark Twain | A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. | 201 |
| Ansel Adams | In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. | 201 |
| Aeschylus | My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. | 201 |
| Jack Canfield | Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition. | 201 |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. | 201 |
| Abraham Lincoln | It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | 202 |
| Colin Powell | My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. | 202 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. | 202 |
| Andre Gide | Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. | 202 |
| Keanu Reeves | How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. | 202 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. | 202 |
| Peter Singer | When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours. | 202 |
| Donald Trump | Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. | 203 |
| Helen Keller | The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. | 203 |
| Simon Sinek | A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. | 203 |
| Jay-Z | When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. | 203 |
| Barbra Streisand | I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. | 203 |
| Brigitte Bardot | I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. | 203 |
| Gary Zukav | The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life. | 203 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. | 203 |
| Umberto Eco | The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities. | 203 |
| Francis Bacon | Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. | 204 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. | 204 |
| Don Marquis | An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. | 204 |
| James Russell Lowell | The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. | 204 |
| William S. Burroughs | Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. | 204 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. | 205 |
| Harry S Truman | Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. | 205 |
| Kendrick Lamar | It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. | 205 |
| Lil Wayne | I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it. | 205 |
| Immanuel Kant | But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. | 206 |
| Stephen Covey | Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. | 206 |
| Henri Nouwen | Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it. | 206 |
| Jim Rohn | Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. | 207 |
| Louis C. K. | It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen. | 207 |
| Nelson Mandela | Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. | 208 |
| Dan Quayle | In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future! | 208 |
| Les Brown | It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. | 208 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. | 209 |
| Steve Carell | There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. | 209 |
| George Washington | 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. | 210 |
| Alan Watts | How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. | 210 |
| Taylor Swift | My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. | 210 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. | 210 |
| Samuel Johnson | What is easy is seldom excellent. | 210 |
| John Mayer | Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care. | 210 |
| Oprah Winfrey | I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. | 211 |
| Helen Keller | Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. | 212 |
| Oscar Wilde | Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. | 212 |
| David Bowie | It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. | 212 |
| Charles Stanley | When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. | 212 |
| Martha Beck | Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will. | 212 |
| Yoko Ono | Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. | 212 |
| Harry S Truman | The reward of suffering is experience. | 214 |
| Henry Ford | The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. | 214 |
| Saint Augustine | The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. | 214 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them. | 215 |
| Henry Ford | 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. | 216 |
| Saint Augustine | My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. | 216 |
| W. C. Fields | Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. | 216 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. | 216 |
| Steve Jobs | Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. | 217 |
| Hillary Clinton | Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience. | 217 |
| Sigmund Freud | The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. | 217 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. | 217 |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. | 219 |
| Nicki Minaj | I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good. | 219 |
| Jim Carrey | I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. | 220 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. | 221 |
| Deepak Chopra | The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. | 221 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. | 221 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience. | 221 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. | 222 |
| Anne Lamott | Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. | 223 |
| George Washington | 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. | 224 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. | 224 |
| Albert Einstein | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | 226 |
| Dalai Lama | My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. | 226 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. | 226 |
| Bob Dylan | You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. | 301 |
| Christopher Hitchens | To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. | 301 |
| John Wooden | I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. | 301 |
| Christopher Hitchens | Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. | 302 |
| Marilyn Monroe | Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. | 303 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. | 304 |
| Joyce Meyer | There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. | 305 |
| Joyce Meyer | I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control. | 307 |
| Josh Billings | There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. | 307 |
| Carl Jung | Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. | 309 |
| Marianne Williamson | With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present. | 309 |
| Aldous Huxley | Experience teaches only the teachable. | 313 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. | 313 |
| Terry Pratchett | My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. | 315 |
| Richard Dawkins | But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. | 316 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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. | 317 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. | 317 |
| Blaise Pascal | Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. | 318 |
| Joyce Meyer | I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. | 318 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. | 319 |
| Wayne Dyer | Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you. | 319 |
| H. L. Mencken | Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. | 321 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. | 323 |
| Paulo Coelho | Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. | 323 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. | 325 |
| Steven Wright | There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person. | 405 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience. | 407 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. | 409 |
| Wayne Dyer | You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience. | 411 |
| Taylor Swift | When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill. | 413 |
| Marianne Williamson | I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. | 416 |
| Albert Camus | When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. | 422 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. | 424 |
| Alice Walker | The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. | 424 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. | 501 |
| Maya Angelou | I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. | 516 |
| Albert Einstein | It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. | 518 |
| Steven Wright | It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet. | 518 |
| William Shakespeare | I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! | 624 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The years teach much which the days never know. | 702 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. | 714 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. | 719 |
| George Bernard Shaw | We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. | 901 |
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