Work Experiences Quotes

#1. It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.

Alexis Herman

#2. Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

Joel Stein

#3. 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.

Joanna Garcia

#4. But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

#5. games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

Ian Bogost

#6. Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

Watchman Nee

#7. A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

Nick Robinson

#8. I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences ... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

Ray Winstone

#9. We should be working to live, not living to work. We have created this "individualistic culture" were living to work has been centered around material gains. Working to live is a better approach because it emphasis on the human experiences and the condition of living.

Henry Johnson Jr

#10. I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

Alastair Campbell

#11. My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.

Jiah Khan

#12. My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

Sharlto Copley

#13. You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

George S. Clason

#14. Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#15. What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

Iyanla Vanzant

#16. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).

Lisa Adkins

#17. Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.

Riaad Moosa

#18. The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Graham Hill

#19. It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

Charlie Munger

#20. I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

Bell Hooks

#21. That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#22. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Anne Lamott

#23. Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Anais Nin

#24. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#25. Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experiences. This confrontation is profoundly humbling in that at all times these experiences challenge the limits of our humanity and our view of the world...

John P. Wilson

#26. The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.

Danny Scheinmann

#27. Think back through your experiences and make a bullet point list of funny stories that have happened to you or your friends. Travel, school, college, parties, work, interaction with parents/in-laws, embarrassing situations, etc. Looking at old photos will help to jog memories.

David Nihill

#28. When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

T. S. Eliot

#29. The head and the heart are not separate, but rather like intimate friends who work together sharing their experiences which enrich our lives and those of others".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#30. I would feel weird having someone style me. It would have to be a collaboration. I've had those experiences and every time it happens I don't feel good. What's the point of putting all this work into something and then when you present it, it's not you?

Jillian Hervey

#31. I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.

Ewen Bremner

#32. We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.

Vitali Klitschko

#33. Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

#34. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

Corrie Ten Boom

#35. None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Anne Tyler

#36. In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

E. M. Forster

#37. The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you're comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

Matt Bomer

#38. To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

Christiane Northrup

#39. A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

Shailene Woodley

#40. S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.

Paul E. Gray

#41. The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Steven Levy

#42. That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.

Deborah Kara Unger

#43. My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

Jim Gaffigan

#44. Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

Paulo Coelho

#45. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

Teresa Heinz

#46. On their deathbeds, people don't think about their work or their life experiences or the items remaining on their to-do list. They think about love and family.

Rick Rubin

#47. The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

Morris Berman

#48. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. I

Corrie Ten Boom

#49. All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Sanford Biggers

#50. The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#51. I've always been spontaneous and outgoing ... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#52. I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.

Christopher Bailey

#53. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#54. The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought.

Alice Walker

#55. Life experience is the new work experience.

Richie Norton

#56. Humans need dreams to work through the range of experiences and emotions they deal with during their waking hours.

Eva Pohler

#57. I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#58. I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

Rei Kawakubo

#59. Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

Patrick Lencioni

#60. All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Toni Cade Bambara

#61. Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

Brandon Stanton

#62. Anything that gets the energy to more people because there's millions of beings who would find freedom, love and a cosmic friend in my work but both those things you mentioned sound like fun exciting experiences that I'd dig.

Giuseppe Andrews

#63. I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music. So really my experiences have been being around the orchestras in London and being around the people who work in film music.

Steven Price

#64. The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

Terence McKenna

#65. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

Alexander Kjerulf

#66. People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.

Philip K. Dick

#67. There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.

Andrew Weil

#68. It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

John Kapelos

#69. For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

Jamie Clayton

#70. On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

Rob Zombie

#71. As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Juliet Aubrey

#72. A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

Kim Weston

#73. I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

Olivia Wilde

#74. A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

Bruno Rossi

#75. If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

Claes Oldenburg

#76. My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Jessie Pavelka

#77. Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

Frederick Lenz

#78. As you explore your own calling, you will be surprised by how your previous experiences are conspiring to lead you in the direction of your life's work. You just have to listen.

Jeff Goins

#79. At 83, if I were enjoying life any more I couldn't stand it! My fast-walks, gym work, mountain hiking and interplay long-distance with my family are the basis of my happiness. My writings reflect my work and life experiences, education and research and covers about 75 years.

Jerry Lemonds

#80. Of course, we have all always known that our experiences affect our minds, and therefore, our brains; but work on epigenetics has revealed a mechanistic way in which the things we learn, and information about our environment, can be physically incorporated into our brains.

David S. Moore

#81. As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside to time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.

Henry David Thoreau

#82. My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

David Rockwell

#83. Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Crystal Reed

#84. The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Mandy Patinkin

#85. My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

Ann Aguirre

#86. Finally, there are the dangers inherent in any autobiographical work: the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer, the tendency to overestimate the interest one's experiences hold for others,

Barack Obama

#87. Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Dustin Hoffman

#88. A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Eyvind Johnson

#89. Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

Sheryl Sandberg

#90. I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

Sam Keen

#91. It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

Britt Robertson

#92. If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?

Chuck Wendig

#93. A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Henri Poincare

#94. You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.

Richie Norton

#95. I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

Grace Paley

#96. Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks.

F.T. McKinstry

#97. To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time.

Shannon L. Alder

#98. 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

#99. I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

Janet Scudder

#100. Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows one to be a part of different stories, travel to different parts of the country and all the experiences put together make life interesting.

Nandita Das