Quotes About Experience

I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

Whether it is unbranded hotels, branded hotels, whatever it is, anywhere where a customer can get an experience that is subordinate but for a price that is equal or higher than the market, we want that to change.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.

Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

'Gilmore Girls' and the first 'Guardians' were the two most substantial jobs of my career.

Post 'Chennai Express,' I got several offers from Hindi cinema, but nothing substantial came my way.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.