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Quotes About Experience

Everything starts with the customer.
~ Lou Gerstner
A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.
~ Neil Armstrong
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
~ Martin Amis
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
~ Brian Chesky
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
~ Chick Corea
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Doris Lessing
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
~ Lee Trevino
We learn of great things by little experiences.
~ Bram Stoker
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
~ Henry James
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
~ Robert Plant
Customer service is the new marketing.
~ Derek Sivers
What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.
~ Anjelica Huston
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
~ Mark Rylance
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
~ Lawrence Klein
It is a great art to saunter !
~ Henry David Thoreau
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
~ Steve Buscemi
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
~ Barry Hannah
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
~ George Santayana
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
~ Bob Geldof
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
~ Wendy Beckett