Experience Quotes - Page 15

Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Inexperience loves to preach.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.

The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

Hillary Clinton has experience, but it's bad experience.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you've immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.