Experience Quotes - Page 14

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not a person who likes to do that activity, eat that food, listen to that music," I would automatically go out and do what I imagined I didn't like. Generally I found I was wrong about myself - I liked what I thought I wouldn't like. And even if I didn't like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

When it comes to lead referral generation, the customer experience is it.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.