Quotes about Experience

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”

“You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.”

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

“Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.”

“Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.”

“We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.”

“No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.”

“I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.”

“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.”

“I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.”

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

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

“I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.”

“Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.”

“If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.”

“My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.”

“People are so crazy about extreme sports. The rush is such a high that you want to experience it again.”

“The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.”

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

“Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.”

“I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”