Experience Quotes

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Barney Frank

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Tom Felton

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Orson Scott Card

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Edward Norton

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Alfred Tennyson

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

David Ogden Stiers

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

Jonah Hill

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Kinky Friedman

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

Harlan Coben

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Walter Wriston