Experience Experiences Quotes

#1. We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.

C.J. Heck

#2. I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

W. H. Auden

#3. As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Everything results in the value that you wish to take from each experience or interaction.

Steven Redhead

#5. Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it's the foundation of the human experience
We all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race.

Brian Edward Arsenault

#6. Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Our experiences are not compartmentalized or dichotomized into just so many world- and life-views. Rather, experience is a holistic unity of purposes and actions, thought and life, that begs for interpretation.

Victor Anderson

#8. Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#9. The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.

A.R. Rahman

#11. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Tony Campolo

#12. There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

Cate Blanchett

#13. What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Edmund Wilson

#14. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

#15. The constant tug-of-war between 'YES, I WANT TO GO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW' and 'Wow, I need a lot of time to process these experiences, can I take a breather?

Heidi Priebe

#16. Since you cannot experience everything, you need the experiences of others, especially the Beluga Caviar, the quotations! They are the most precious eggs of the big life experiences!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

James Wolk

#18. Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Rene Daumal

#19. It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people's experiences. Often one has to make do with seeds; the germs of what might have been, had one's life been different.

Virginia Woolf

#20. The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.

Steve Gaynor

#21. I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

Richard Paul Evans

#22. All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

George Eliot

#23. I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world

Ashly Lorenzana

#24. The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

William James

#25. Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

Nate Parker

#26. Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

Amy Poehler

#27. For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

Anne Waldman

#28. If women were totally satisfied with their sexual and lovemaking experiences, women would welcome the lovemaking experience as much as men.

J.F. Kelly

#29. I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Dorianne Laux

#30. There's no such thing as a mistake. There are only experiences. Some are good, and some are bad. Either way, it is an experience we learn from.

Jenna Alatari

#31. You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

John Green

#32. You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

Neale Donald Walsch

#33. The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.

Robert Jordan

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

Lana Del Rey

#35. There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.

Laren Grey Umphlett

#36. I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.

Wayne Dyer

#37. I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

Elizabeth Banks

#38. Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences,
and when we change the lens we change how we experience.

Aisha Mirza

#39. A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Mark Kurlansky

#40. Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Ernest Wood

#41. We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.

Michael Winter

#42. I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.

Kristen Stewart

#43. Don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive ...

John Geddes

#44. Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

Eileen Caddy

#45. There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Bernard Malamud

#46. Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own.

Gina Greenlee

#47. Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

Alli Simpson

#48. Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.

Lana Del Rey

#49. When you learn from experience and history, and try to walk down a different road, the present always reminds you that you need to walk down the road that experience and history did. This is why no one learns from experience and history.

Lionel Suggs

#50. Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Thomas Hardy

#51. While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Rick Warren

#52. You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

Pharrell Williams

#53. There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

Shauna Niequist

#54. Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love.

Rob Brezsny

#55. The ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

T. S. Eliot

#56. To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

Prem Prakash

#57. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

Liz Goldwyn

#58. Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

#59. The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

#60. I like to have a good experience. That's all you have.

Cary Elwes

#61. Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help.

Ezra Taft Benson

#62. Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Jim Rohn

#63. Your capacity to experience the fullness of life is directly proportionate to your capacity to experience the fullness of love.

Steve Maraboli

#64. Life says: Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.

Naveed Nawab Ali

#65. That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Deepak Chopra

#66. I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Sanford I. Weill

#67. We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gathering appropriate learning experiences and awakening our minds to observe, evaluate, and recall what we experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#68. Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.

Peter Molyneux

#69. When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface ... You have to pause.

Iyanla Vanzant

#70. Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Ciara

#71. Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

Douglas Preston

#72. It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

Julia Sweeney

#73. My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

N.R. Walker

#74. Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#75. I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

Jose Gonzalez

#76. I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

Tavis Smiley

#77. If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John Heywood

#78. Life experience is the new work experience.

Richie Norton

#79. No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Alfred Adler

#80. Grief is part of my human experience. There will always be loss during my lifetime. Loss has come in a variety of forms to me - such as death, divorce, losing a job, and selling a beloved home. Each event brought me new opportunities and experiences that would not have been possible otherwise.

Lisa J. Shultz

#81. I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.

Violante Placido

#82. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Felix Bloch

#83. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

Sol LeWitt

#84. The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences.

Steven Redhead

#85. What you call mistakes and failures are valuable experiences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. You cannot tell how it is, until you experience it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. You are the architect of your personal experience.

Shirley Maclaine

#88. When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

Yolanda Adams

#89. It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Lyman Abbott

#90. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

Billy Collins

#91. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his psychiatric practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose.

Sophie Sabbage

#92. Just when you think you have a twisted mind, crazy ideas, & no fear to make them known, you find out through experience you're not the only one.

April Mae Monterrosa

#93. Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

Joseph Cornell

#94. The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

Cameron Conaway

#95. You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.

Agnes Martin

#96. I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

Chuck Palahniuk

#97. Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there.

J.R. Young

#98. But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Peg Bracken

#99. It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Randy Schekman

#100. Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

Jess C. Scott