c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.
— Kathryn Minshew
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
— John le Carre
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
— John Stuart Mill
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
— William Golding
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
— Anne Sullivan
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
— Eric Hoffer
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. 
— Henry Kissinger
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
— Jean Houston
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
— Keith Haring
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
— Charley Pride
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
— Edward Witten
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
— Catherine Deneuve
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
— Roger Ebert
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
— Peter Hammill
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
— Arnold Palmer
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
— Mos Def
I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.
— Jose Canseco
I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.
— Jessica Ennis
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
— Erykah Badu
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
— Carre Otis
After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.
— Cecelia Ahern
Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.
— David Tennant
There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
— Lester Holt
To wear a floral shirt is an experience.
— Brian Wilson
Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.
— Psy
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
— Giacomo Leopardi
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
— Mos Def
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
— Sherman Alexie
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
— Peter Singer
Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
— Andrew J. Bernstein
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
— Jeffrey Kluger
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
— Bonnie Blair
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
— Earl Wilson
There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.
— Joyce Meyer
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
— Raul Julia
In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.
— Pete Hamill
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
— Edward Teller
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
— Johan Huizinga
It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
— Sharon Stone
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
— Audrey Hepburn
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
— Denis Waitley
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
— Marilyn Monroe
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
— Bo Bennett
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
— Bill Bradley
Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
— Vash Young
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
— Eric Butterworth
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
— D. H. Lawrence
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
— Bill Gates
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
— Marissa Mayer
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
— Pauline Hanson
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.
— Hugh Mackay
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
— Gabriel Marcel
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
— Hans Kung
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
— Marcel Dionne
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
— Barbara Kruger
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
— Elliott Smith
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
— Diana Krall
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
— David Elliott
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
— Jesse James Garrett
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
— Johannes Stark
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
— Charley Pride
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
— C. Everett Koop
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
— Henry Reed
The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.
— Henry Reed
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
— Robert Morgan
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
— Orville Wright
Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
— Marion Ross
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
— Richard Masur
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
— Charles de Secondat
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
— Anita Hill
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
— Jasper Johns
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
— Beck
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
— Harrison Ford
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
— Mark Rylance
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
— Bruce Willis
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
— Mary Daly
Experience is the cane of the blind.
— Jacques Roumain
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
— William Morris
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
— George Herbert Mead
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
— Joshua Jackson
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
— John Updike
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
— Flannery O'Connor
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
— Richard Wright
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
— Javier Bardem
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
— Harrison Ford
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
— David Thewlis
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
— L. Ron Hubbard
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
— Ken Jennings
When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
— Charlie Kaufman
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
— Chris Robinson
The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
— Chris Robinson
The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.
— Curt Schilling
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
— Chrissie Hynde
Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
I write out of my intellectual experience.
— Tom Stoppard
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
— Mariah Carey
I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.
— Ken Salazar
Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
— Gordon Ramsay
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
— Hillary Clinton
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
— Tom DeLonge
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
— Keanu Reeves
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
— Jamie Foxx
It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.
— Sarah Burton
You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
— Lili Taylor
I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
— Magnus Carlsen
Life is a very emotional experience.
— Tony Goldwyn
I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.
— Theo James
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?
— Simon Mainwaring
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
— Cristina Saralegui
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
— Esperanza Spalding
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
— Chris Noth
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
— Sam Shepard
I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
— Matthias Schoenaerts
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.
— Mike White
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
— Alan Lightman
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.
— Daniel Tammet
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.
— Marilynne Robinson
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
— Tara Brach
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
— Tara Brach
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.
— Marya Hornbacher
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
— Mireille Guiliano
The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
— Victoria Clark
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
— James Salter
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
— James Nachtwey
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
— Max Weber
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
— Meher Baba
Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
— Rufus Wainwright
I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.
— Neil Patrick Harris
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
— Anthony Bourdain
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.
— Thelma Golden
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.
— April Gornik
I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
— Joyce Meyer
Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
— Wendy Davis
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
— Alice Walker
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.
— Joss Whedon
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
— Deepak Chopra
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
— Ambrose Bierce
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
— Vivienne Westwood
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
— Blaise Pascal
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
— Ziggy Marley
I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
— Sia
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.
— Andrea Bocelli
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
— George Santayana
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
— Jimmy Carter
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
— Christopher Walken
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
— Horace
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
— Susan Orlean
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.
— Chris Evans
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
— Barbra Streisand
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
— Miranda Lambert
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.
— Sloane Crosley
Every experience makes you a man.
— Eric Cantona
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
— Josh Billings
What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
— Iyanla Vanzant
I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
— Bryan Cranston
Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
— Shirley MacLaine
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
— Jane Smiley
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.
— Sharon Salzberg
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
— Edward Norton
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
— Amy Chua
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
— Eddie Van Halen
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
— George Saunders
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
— Stephen Fry
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.
— Tony Kushner
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
— Amy Grant
I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
— Cameron Diaz
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
— Clive Barker
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
— Fran Lebowitz
I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
— Gary Zukav
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
— Howie Mandel
Tragedy makes you grow up.
— Jane Campion
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
— John Banville
I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.
— Jimmy Kimmel
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
— Karl Kraus
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
— Chris Pratt
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
— Imran Khan
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
— T. D. Jakes
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
— Xavier Becerra
As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
— Blake Mycoskie
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
— John Frusciante
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
— Jasper Johns
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
— David Frum
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
— Tim Gunn
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
— Richard Eyre
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
— William Ellery Channing
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
— Peter Shaffer
My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.
— Antony Gormley
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
— John Abizaid
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
— Lisa Edelstein
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
— Prince William
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
— Gary Locke
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
— Edward Sapir
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
— Sanford I. Weill
Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees.
— Theodor Herzl
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
— Chaim Potok
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
— Ivan Reitman
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
— Andre Agassi
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.
— John Barrowman
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
— Bob Feller
I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.
— Jeff Gordon
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
— Walter Pater
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
— Walter Pater
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
— A. R. Ammons
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
— Jenna Elfman
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
— Charles Jencks
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
— Josiah Royce
When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.
— Sue Wicks
I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?
— Logan Lerman
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
— Arnold Bennett
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
— Mike Leigh
But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
— Joseph Jarman
Color is an intense experience on its own.
— Jim Hodges
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
— Max Frisch
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
— Bill Moyers
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
— Jacques Lacan
I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president.
— Hilda Solis
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
— George Herbert Mead
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
— Amanda Hocking
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
— Lauren Oliver
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
— Mary Baker Eddy
We owned what we learned back there the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. 
— Ellen Goodman
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
— David Knopfler
Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.
— Lawrence Bender
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
— Anatoli Boukreev
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
— M. Scott Peck
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
— Franklin Pierce Adams
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
— Charlton Heston
You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
— Jeb Hensarling
I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.
— Sete Gibernau
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
— Sarah Kay
At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. 
— Ernest Thompson Seton
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
— Clarence Day
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
— George Duke
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
— Pauline Phillips
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
— Greg Anderson
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
— Stella Adler
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
— Susan Collins
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
— Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
— Roger Ascham
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.
— Sid Meier
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
— William Styron
It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.
— Tony Shalhoub
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
— Russell Hoban