Experience Quotes

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

There is always room for improvement in experience and it can be achieved if one listens to the customers carefully.

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I've been lucky enough to play in the final of a World Cup before, but it's always an amazing experience to walk out at a packed stadium.

I know from my own experience that anything is possible, that there's nothing you can't do.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

I felt really happy to be able to film together with Korea's most beautiful actress. Everyone thinks it's because of her outward appearance that Song Hye-kyo became famous, but after working together, I realized her inner heart and personality are also good. Moreover, she has lots of acting experience, and I actually did learn a lot from her.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.