Quotes About Experience

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.