Experience Counts Quotes

#1. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Mo Ibrahim

#3. It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.

Andrew Norman Wilson

#4. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#5. It will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Simon Hoggart

#7. We're born into the world as just one small piece to the puzzle that makesup an entire life.

Colleen Hoover

#8. I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

Billie Jean King

#10. Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

E. O. Wilson

#11. I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lloyd

#12. Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

E. M. Forster

#13. Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

Jacob Latimore

#14. There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

George Gershwin

#16. physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned.

John J. Ratey

#17. I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

George Packer

#18. To be listened to is ... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating ... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

Robert C. Murphy

#19. Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.

T. Rafael Cimino

#20. These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

Karen Thompson Walker

#21. Exposure and experience is all, what counts.

Lovely Goyal

#22. A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

William James

#23. The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.

Vivian Gornick

#24. I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts

Christopher Lee

#25. When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake

#26. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alain Ducasse

#27. Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

Rick Riordan

#28. I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

Georges Braque

#29. Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Clement Greenberg

#30. I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

Kristin Cast

#31. The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Terence McKenna

#32. It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.

Frederick Lenz

#33. You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

W. H. Auden

#34. Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Jose Aldo

#35. Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower