Famous Quotes
- Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
- Twyla Tharp on Experience
- Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
- Jeanette Winterson on Experience
- Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
- Diane Kruger on Experience
- Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky on Experience
- Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
- Steve Jobs on Experience
- Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
- Robert Lanza on Experience
- Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.
- Joshua Foer on Experience
- Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
- Marissa Mayer on Experience
- Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
- Robert Lanza on Experience
- Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
- Sacha Guitry on Experience
- Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- George Santayana on Experience
- Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
- Jenny McCarthy on Experience
- Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
- Susan Orlean on Experience
- Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.
- Mark Zandi on Experience
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Experience
- People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Experience
- People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
- Bill Murray on Experience
- People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
- Laurieann Gibson on Experience
- People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
- John Hodgman on Experience
- Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.
- James Taylor on Experience
- Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.
- James Taylor on Experience
- Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
- Ernst Mach on Experience
- Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
- Jon Bon Jovi on Experience
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
- Hannah Arendt on Experience
- Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
- Kinky Friedman on Experience
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles on Experience
- Producing is just a big learning experience.
- Ashley Tisdale on Experience
- Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
- Herbert Read on Experience
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Experience
- Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- Thomas Hobbes on Experience
- Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
- Arnold Palmer on Experience
- Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- Robert M. Pirsig on Experience
- Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
- Angela Carter on Experience
- Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
- Arthur Smith on Experience
- Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
- M. Scott Peck on Experience
- Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Experience
- Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
- Roger Bacon on Experience
- Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Experience
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
- Annie Besant on Experience
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
- Frederick Buechner on Experience
- Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
- Paul Getty on Experience
- Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
- Ben Stein on Experience
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller on Experience
- Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
- Woody Allen on Experience
- Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
- George Sand on Experience
- Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
- John Ruskin on Experience
- Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
- W. C. Fields on Experience
- So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
- Richard Branson on Experience
- So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
- David Frum on Experience
- So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
- Isadora Duncan on Experience
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