Quotes About Experience

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

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.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

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.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.