Experience Quotes

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

Steve Jobs

The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Earl Wilson

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Kurt Vonnegut

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Ian Mcewan

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Jennifer Aniston

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Henry David Thoreau

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

Quincy Jones

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

Jeff Bridges

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

Brooke Burke

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Joseph Roux

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Wallis Simpson