Experience Quotes

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

There is no substitute for experience

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.