Quotes About Experience

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.