Experience Quotes

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

~ Myles Horton

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

~ Marty Rubin

...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

~ John Geddes

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

~ Bill Buford

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'.~R. Alan Woods [1998]

~ R. Alan Woods

This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.

~ Michael David Lukas

‎You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.

~ L.m. Fields

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.

~ Yovanny Alfonso

Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of human sight. This habituation to the monopoly of visualization-on-command strongly suggests that only those things that can in some way be visualized, recorded, and replayed at will are part of reality...The result is a strange mistrusts of our own eyes, a disposition to take as real only that which is mechanically displayed in a photograph, a statistical curve, or a table. Eyewitness testimony must be substantiated by records that have been acquired, and can be stored and then shown.

~ Barbara Duden

Strange how something good can come from something horrible.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

~ Sharon M. Draper

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

~ Lord Dunsany

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

~ John Dewey

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

~ Flannery O'connor

Wisdom isn't built on experience, it's built on reason...

~ Lionel Suggs

Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have not experienced it, they cannot appreciate it, and thus never know it. However, at the same time, people want you to learn from past mistakes and past experiences, in order to make a better choice for yourself. So let me ask you, which is the hypocrite? Is it history or is it today?

~ Lionel Suggs

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

~ Edward Hallett Carr

When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.

~ Lionel Suggs

Dangerously close to having to work for a living.

~ Rosen Topuzov

Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.

~ Paula Abdul

You can overcome the things that are done to you, but you cannot escape the things that you have done. Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. The soldiers who don't die for us come home again. They bring with them the killers they became on our national behalf, and sit with their polluted memories and broken emotions in our homes and schools and temples. We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.You can tell yourself all the stories you want, but you can't leave your actions over there. You can't build a wall and expect to live on the other side of memory. All of the poison seeps back into our soil.

~ Megan K. Stack

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

~ Richie Norton

It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.

~ Tom Cheetham

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

~ Mitt Romney

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

~ Debbi Fields

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

~ Harold S. Geneen

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

~ Henry Kravis

I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.

~ Robert Scoble

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

~ Michael Gerber

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

~ Jason Mraz

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

~ Molly Antopol

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

~ Doug Flutie

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

~ Linda Thompson

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

~ Henry Ford