Experience Quotes

Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

~ Brian Christian

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

~ Hannah Kent

Don't judge people by what others tell you, rather judge them by your experience and encounter with them.

~ Oscar Bimpong

And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

~ Tobias Wolff

If you can simply drop yourself from the moment, you can still experience life and with more clarity.

~ Roshan Sharma

NASA has decades of experience in studying the effects of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and their experiments show that continuous habitation of an alien environment in Space results in sickness in less than a year in astronauts and a similar environment on Earth produces ill health in humans in just two years.

~ Steven Magee

With life the truth is not what is right or wrong, but with life the truth is the process, where life unfolds in every individual, and takes him to the whole.

~ Roshan Sharma

What is it like to burn as the humans do? When one’s existence can be parcelled and measured in the units that the humans use, what was it? Time. Units of time. Ability to calculate, and live through countable units of time in motion. The physicality of time passing, when one’s lifespan is short enough to be able to tangibly experience the passage of time.

~ Teo Yi Han

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.

~ Stephanie Danler

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

~ Douglas Preston

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

~ Stephanie Danler

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Death cannot be contrary to an interest in continued life any more than birth could be in accordance with an interest in commencing life. To this extent, with merely conscious beings, birth and death cancel each other out; whereas with self-aware beings, the fact that one may desire to continue living means that death inflicts a loss for which the birth of another is insufficient compensation.

~ Peter Singer

Failure is the price paid for a lesson. Learn from it.

~ Shilpa Menon

There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences.

~ Chris Matakas

I always miss the depth , It becomes old when I see . To see beyond that is like a dream. Memory Loss .

~ Ankit Samrat

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

~ Toni Sorenson

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

~ Sarah Dessen

I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.

~ Drew Nellins Smith

Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

~ Eric Schmidt

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

~ John C. Maxwell

Writing sharpens life, life enriches writing.

~ Sylvia Plath

To deny the truth of our own experience in the scientific study of ourselves is not only unsatisfactory; it is to render the scientific study of ourselves without a subject matter. But to suppose that science cannot contribute to an understanding of our experience may be to abandon, within the modern context, the task of self-understanding. Experience and scientific understanding are like two legs without which we cannot walk. We can phrase this very same idea in positive terms: it is only by having a sense of common ground between cognitive science and human experience that our understanding of cognition can be more complete and reach a satisfying level. We thus propose a constructive task: to enlarge the horizon of cognitive science to include the broader panorama of human, lived experience in a disciplined, transformative analysis.

~ Evan Thompson

I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences.

~ Dennis Covington

Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

By far the most significant consequence of selfish capitalism (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

~ Oliver James

It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness.

~ Steven Magee

Beware of anything to do with President Obama...I speak from experience.

~ Steven Magee

He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.

~ David F. Porteous

I think about how Grandpa Z says the sky is blue because it's dusty and octopuses can unscrew the tops off jars and starfish have eyes at the tips of their arms. I think: No matter what happens, no matter how wretched and gloomy everything can get, at least Mrs. Sabo got to feel this.

~ Anthony Doerr

But he was a perfect gentleman, Aunt Amelia. He did not even try to kiss me, though he wanted to. ... You always tell me I must be receptive to broadening experiences. That would have been a broadening experience. And, from what I have observed, a very enjoyable one.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Time may be defined as dimension governed by activity. Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.

~ Moutasem Algharati

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

~ Moutasem Algharati

It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.

~ Igor Eliseev

In the morning stillness, when the world is just waking up and your conscious mind hasn't fully taken over, you may feel a connection or passageway to another world, and a feeling that something is about to happen in yours. It's like a quiet storm is coming. You can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon, yet you have no idea of the deluge your life is about to experience.

~ Padma Lakshmi

I don’t want us to be ashamed anymore (we all were crying by this point) of being pregnant or gay or poor or having a crackhead dad! I want us to be fucking proud of ourselves. (...) So we have to be proud and always remember who we are and when we make it to college, who we were.

~ Isabel Quintero