Quotes about Experience

“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

“During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.”

“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

“See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.”

“I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my grandchildren would not experience: it has all happened faster than even the pessimists predicted.”

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”

“You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“'The Dish' has been an amazing experience.”

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”

“I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”

“How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.”

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

“All experience is subjective.”