Experience Quotes

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

I did not think; I experimented.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.