Experience Quotes

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

~ Tim Weiner

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

~ Howard Zinn

What I want to impart through our correspondence is that no matter what anyone may be going through, here's the thing: If you love each other, and if your relationship is worth the pain or the hardship, stay with it. The extraordinary treasure of sharing another person's life is one of the most gratifying experiences of being a human being.

~ Lorri Davis

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Relationships may become wrecked by a quirky syndrome: the “Ain't broke, don't fix”-syndrome. When there is no interaction in the neural network and no breakthrough into the mind but only a shallow skin experience, living together might be very torturous. If a heartfelt bond has not been molded, nothing can be broken and thus nothing needs to be fixed. (“I wonder what went wrong.”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

~ Bill Loguidice

Experience everything but cling to what is right.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In urge to modern don't slip much that you can't find yourself someday & die in confusion or end up in doing rubbish. Fly but by realizing your root.

~ Ankit Samrat

It's time to change my life and see the world.

~ Jennifer Coletta

Whatever is worthy of adventure, can only be experienced.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

~ Jennifer Egan

Never mistrust, unless given a reason.

~ Sonia Rumzi

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

~ Benjamin Franklin

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

~ Chris Bohjalian

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.

~ Robinson Jeffers

Life teaches us invaluable lessons through our experiences and I treasure these. If I’ve been hurt, humiliated, shunned or sidelined I have grown that much stronger by learning precious lessons from them. If I’ve experienced spells of failures and disappointments, I’ve had my moments of sunshine too. But the best gift that experiences have given me is that I don’t commit the same mistake twice. They have taught me to overcome even the most difficult obstacles…

~ Latika Teotia

Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

~ Stephen King

... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

~ Tania Aebi

Questions that begin ‘If I had/if I had not’ have no true answers. You can never know how your actions may have impacted Master Jason’s fate. And if you could know, that knowledge would not change the past. The only good that can come of these musings is that which you have already found: in taking the lessons of the past, such as they may be, to guide your choices in the present.

~ Chris Dee

One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

~ Kayla Krantz

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

~ James Joyce

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.

~ James Hauenstein

Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all.

~ James Hauenstein

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

~ Roman Payne

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

~ Walter Benjamin

If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!

~ Harrish Sairaman

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

~ Jules Verne

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

~ Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

~ Daniel Bor

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed.

~ Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as “necessities of thought”, “a priori givens”, etc. The path of scientific advance is often made impassable for a long time through such errors. For that reason, it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing the long commonplace concepts and exhibiting those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. By this means, their all-too-great authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, replaced by others if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason.

~ Albert Einstein

[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.

~ Robert Epstein