Experience Quotes

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

~ Natalie Portman

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

~ Matt Haig

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

~ Bindi Irwin

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

~ George Strait

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

~ Roy Romer

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

Everything is a learning experience.

~ Angus T. Jones

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

~ Archibald Macleish

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

~ Felicity Jones

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

~ Dan Buettner

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

~ Beck

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

~ Thomas Keller

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

~ P. J. O'rourke

My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.

~ Mitt Romney

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

~ Richard Branson

I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

~ Jill Scott

Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

~ Satya Nadella

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

~ Willie Stargell

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

~ Eric Kandel

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

~ Matt Harvey

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

~ Bob Geldof

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

~ Malaika Arora Khan

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

~ Vijay Sethupathi

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

~ Gerry Schwartz

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

~ Joe Bastianich

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

~ James Beard

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

~ Rene Redzepi

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

~ Anthony Bourdain

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

~ A. J. Liebling

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

~ Mariska Hargitay

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

~ Jonathan Ive

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

~ George Washington

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

~ Albert Einstein

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

~ Frederick Buechner

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

~ Reza Aslan

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

~ Shaun Cassidy