Experience You Quotes

#1. Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Matthew Lillard

#3. Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Kinky Friedman

#4. Life is filled with pain and beauty. It's a journey, a learning experience. You've always been a girl who has had to learn by doing, not by watching and listening--don't change that. Don't change that now--you're too young.

Karyn Bosnak

#5. You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

Marc Wilmots

#6. Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Ted Alexandro

#7. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

Facundo Pieres

#8. Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.

Roshan Sharma

#9. It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Charleston Parker

#10. It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

Terence McKenna

#11. I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.

Aron Ralston

#12. A brand is two words: the 'Promise' you telegraph, and the 'Experience' you deliver.

Donald J. Trump

#13. Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Albert Einstein

#14. Whenever you aren't manipulating your experience, you're meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you're controlling your experience again, and you've squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

Adyashanti

#15. Hopefully not by sad experience, you will find that some interactions most private, can be the coldest and most closed off, and some interactions seemingly common or casual can be the most intimate.

Michael Brent Jones

#16. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Vivienne Westwood

#17. Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

Mike McCue

#18. With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.

Esther Hicks

#19. Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.

Robert Brunner

#20. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

Nicole Lapin

#21. If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

Kenny Ortega

#22. If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.

Deepak Chopra

#23. Having gained experience, you can help others and discover your destination and unique gift

Sunday Adelaja

#24. That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Laurie Anderson

#25. Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#26. One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

#27. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#28. Experience life in all possible ways
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.

Osho

#29. Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences ... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

Bob Beamon

#30. What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit? ... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

Renzo Gracie

#31. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#32. Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

Suzy Kassem

#33. Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

Peter Drucker

#34. I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want ... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Don McCullin

#35. Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone ... For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.

Ben Mitchell

#36. I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Bill Fitch

#37. Life is calling you. The other life. The analogue life. The real. Nature is calling you. And people too. Wondrous royal souls are waiting to meet, appreciate and experience you.

Bryant McGill

#38. As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

James Blunt

#39. Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

Joanna Cassidy

#40. Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Ronald Reagan

#41. There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Tony Danza

#42. You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.

Bob Hartley

#43. I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#44. There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

John De Ruiter

#45. Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Eric S. Raymond

#46. But grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living.

John Verdon

#47. You can't share an emotional experience you don't understand. Accessing feelings brings you a step closer to using emotions more effectively in your relationship.

Brent A. Bradley

#48. No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#49. It can't be any worse than whatever it is Annarion's doing."
"You are devoid of an active imagination, which is disappointing considering the experience you have now amassed.

Michelle Sagara

#50. I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#51. You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is ... unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

Alice Neel

#52. Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

John Frederick Demartini

#53. Every book I read and every movies I watched seems to give out the same message: high school is the worst experience you can ever have.

Jennifer Niven

#54. And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you bind yourself to a master. Bound is bound. If your master really loved you, he would not demand your devotion. He would set you free
from himself, first of all.

Tom Robbins

#55. Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit

Wayne Dyer

#56. I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Elia Kazan

#57. In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

Dave Barry

#58. A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone

Larry David

#59. Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Eric Lefkofsky

#60. As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.

James Van Praagh

#61. My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.

John Zakour

#62. How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity. (10:43.)

Jane Roberts

#63. Experienced Christian, boast not in your experience; you will trip yet if you look away from him who is able to keep you from falling. Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, "We shall never sin," but rather cry, "Lead us not into temptation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#64. After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

Audrey Tautou

#65. The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Haile Gebrselassie

#66. Allow your acceptance of that to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking it square in the face and then moving on. You don't have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.

Cheryl Strayed

#67. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context
within which you can express the fullness of who you are.
And who you are is an experience you have before
you enter relationship, not because you did.

Neale Donald Walsch

#68. I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

Keanu Reeves

#69. The experience you've had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

A.S.A Harrison

#70. Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Jimmy Connors

#71. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

John C. Maxwell

#72. I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

James A. Michener

#73. I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Kevin Spacey

#74. In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

Steve McConnell

#75. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

Yasmin Mogahed

#76. If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

Richie Norton

#77. 'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

Nico Mirallegro

#78. You have not had thirty years' experience ... You have had one year's experience 30 times.

J.L. Carr

#79. You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes ... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience ... you have got to share living before you can find love.

Stan Barstow

#80. And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Jason Statham

#81. I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

Jim Gaffigan

#82. As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

Chuck Noll

#83. You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

John C. Maxwell

#84. Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

Rajneesh

#85. With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Gus Van Sant

#86. Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Jessica Alba

#87. The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.

Chad Hurley

#88. If you don't believe in transcendent experience, you haven't been to the right concert, you know, you haven't used the right drugs, you haven't had sex with the right partner.

Bart Campolo

#89. The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

Sebastian Stan

#90. I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures.

Ben Edlund

#91. Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

Leven Rambin

#92. If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

Anthony Bourdain

#93. We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

George Saunders

#94. Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Jamie Foxx

#95. Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

Suzy Kassem

#96. I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.

Jon Spaihts

#97. Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

Shirley Manson

#98. Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Kate Beckinsale

#99. Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

#100. No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

Charlie Kelly