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Quotes About Experience

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
~ Henri Nouwen
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
~ William James
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
~ Maxfield Parrish
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
~ Ray Bradbury
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
~ Hosea Ballou
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.
~ Jeff Buckley
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
~ Hillary Clinton
We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.
~ George Harrison
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
~ Joseph Campbell
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
~ Flannery O'Connor
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
~ Rob Bell
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
~ Garry Kasparov
Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
~ Ruth Gordon
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.
~ Jose Aldo
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience
~ Dave Brubeck
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
~ Carolee Schneemann
For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
~ Damien Rice
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
~ Vladimir Lenin
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
~ Rumi