3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley 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.
3 December 2020 William James ‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
3 December 2020 Josh Radnor I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you’re at and you’ll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
3 December 2020 Hugh Grant But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you’re an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
3 December 2020 Confucius There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
3 December 2020 Ram Dass It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
3 December 2020 Bashar al-Assad Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
3 December 2020 Rachael Ray Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you’ll get it done!
3 December 2020 Lou Holtz I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody There’s probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
3 December 2020 Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
3 December 2020 Tom Felton Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who’ve got an incredible talent was just a great experience.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
3 December 2020 Tim Roth I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven’t been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
