Experience Quotes - Page 9

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Great men never require experience.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

By far the best proof is experience.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.