Experience Quotes

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

~ Paul Cézanne

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

~ Travis Bradberry

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

~ Gary Gygax

I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

~ Joe Arpaio

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

~ Annie Besant

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

~ Ben Horowitz

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

~ Daniel Tammet

With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.

~ Brendan Iribe

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

~ Antony Gormley

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

~ Dennis C. Blair

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

~ Natalie Martinez

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

~ Barry Sanders

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

~ Krysten Ritter

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

~ Eric Lefkofsky

Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.

~ Nene Leakes

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

~ Kid Cudi

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

~ Frank Mccourt

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

~ Dave Obey

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.

~ Rudolf Steiner

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

~ Thom Mayne

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

~ Helmut Jahn

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

~ Tadao Ando

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

~ Danny Rimer

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

~ Nancy Banks-Smith

Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.

~ Michael Frome

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

~ Queen Latifah

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

~ Bill Ackman

Every outing is a learning experience.

~ Drew Pomeranz

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

~ Ryan Sheckler

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

~ Dree Hemingway

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

~ M. Scott Peck

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

~ Doug Larson

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

~ Samuel Butler

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

~ Denis Waitley

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

~ Jack Hanna

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

~ John Travolta