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Quotes About Experience

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
~ Robert Frost
Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.
~ Marty Liquori
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
~ Unknown
Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
~ Colin Powell
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
~ Barry McCaffrey
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.
~ Margaret Chan
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
~ Shelley Berman
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
~ Gerald R. Ford
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
~ T. S. Eliot
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
~ Julia Alvarez
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
~ Peter Schjeldahl
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
~ Unknown
An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.
~ Martin Margiela
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
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.
~ Tommy Chong
Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.
~ William S. Knudsen
I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.
~ Unknown
One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.
~ Chris Sharma
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
~ George Gershwin
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
~ Unknown
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
~ David Naylor
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
~ Kiki Smith
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
~ Jef Raskin
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit