Experience Quotes

Well I am young. Just as he felt a flicker of ease, she murmured in a sexy voice, But, baby, I've been busy.

~ Kresley Cole

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

~ Virginia Woolf

If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.

~ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

~ William Shakespeare

I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed.What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?

~ Melvin Burgess

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

~ Alain De Botton

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

~ Prem Prakash

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

~ Judith Mcnaught

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

~ Henry David Thoreau

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)

~ Hermann Hesse

Experience will tell you if you need more of it.

~ Jack Gardner

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

~ Shoshana Zuboff

When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.

~ Therone Shellman

The only true experience is of the immediate present

~ Sylvia Clare

Experience prefers humility.

~ Toba Beta

Exposure and experience is all, what counts.

~ Lovely Goyal

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

~ Hyman G. Rickover

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read.

~ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

~ Chinua Achebe

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

~ Michael Oakeshott

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

~ Agatha Christie

You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

~ Donna Ball

Someone told me once, ‘It’s time to get you a pair of overalls, boy.’ But I don’t believe in summing up nothin’ – I let my experiences speak for themselves – and even if I did, a synopsis should be singular. That’s why every time I go out to work in the fields, I work naked. It lets my neighbors speak of my experiences for me.

~ M.c. Humphreys

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

~ Yann Martel

He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.

~ Tim O'brien

For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.

~ Greg Baxter

Whatever happens is for experience, because i am not sure about the 'good' thing.

~ Lovely Goyal

I consider everything that happened to be precious moments of my life.The pain.The suffering.The fun…And I am here right now, because everyone was there for me.I couldn’t have accomplished anything by standing still, without anybody’s help.I treasure every moment I have spent here.Unlucky?I feel pretty lucky.This is my resolve.”-Sawada Tsunayoshi-

~ Sawada Tsunayoshi

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

~ Tom Stoppard

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of intellectual/literary precocity, I had not experienced much;nor would I experience much until I was well into middle age-the illnesses and deaths of my parents, this unexpected death of my husband. We play at paste till qualified for pearl says Emily Dickinson. Playing at paste is much of our early lives. And then, with the violence of a door slammed shut by wind rushing through a house, life catches up with us.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “People don’t just buy books because they need books,” he has said. “There are products like that. Pharmaceuticals are that way. Nobody enjoys browsing the Preparation H counter. But people will gladly spend hours in a bookstore, so you have to make the shopping experience fun and engaging.

~ Richard L. Brandt

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

~ Jeanette Michelle

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

~ Judith Mcnaught

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

~ Mike Schmoker

Start a new day with a feeling that life is bigger than achievements & non-achievements, we often worry about the desirable achievements leaving aside the experience gained by non-achievements; Always believe that every successful future achievement will rise from shadows of lessons taught by unsuccessful past experiences.

~ Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

Experience all things.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody can experience everything, so you need to borrowthe experience of others.

~ Amber Hurdle

Experience taught me that when pride wins... we all lose.

~ Alfa H

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

~ Marty Rubin

If we get better with ‘Experience’ then why doesn’t the romance get better and better with every year in most of the marriages?

~ Harrish Sairaman