Quotes about Experience

“Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.”

“As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.”

“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.”

“We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.”

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

“You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.”

“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.”

“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”

“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”

“What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.”

“Zumba is a great dance-cardio option that's an immersive experience for participants and is not only effective but allows you to express yourself while getting in shape.”

“My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.”

“Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.”

“There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.”

“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”