3 December 2020 Eric Clapton I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
3 December 2020 Delta Goodrem Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, ‘I have been through worse.’
3 December 2020 Henri Poincare The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
3 December 2020 Jane Pauley My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
3 December 2020 Richard Russo Truth be told, I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it’s been my experience that most people don’t want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
3 December 2020 Daniel Libeskind Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
3 December 2020 Orson Scott Card The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.
3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
3 December 2020 Curt Siodmak A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
3 December 2020 Keith Richards Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
3 December 2020 Stephen Fry 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Moore Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
3 December 2020 Harvey S. Firestone Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
3 December 2020 Mary Baker Eddy Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
3 December 2020 Fred Perry Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
3 December 2020 Werner Herzog I’m a very professional man. I’m not out for the experience of adventure.
3 December 2020 Jonah Hill I’ve never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… I’ve always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.’ I had a great high-school experience.
3 December 2020 Vernon Law Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant Everybody’s entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
