934 private quotes tagged experience

“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.” — Helmut Jahn

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“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!” — Dan Quayle

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“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.” — John Baldacci

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“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.” — Sacha Guitry

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“I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.” — Ang Lee

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“If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.” — David Lynch

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“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” — John Heywood

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“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.” — Frank Shorter

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“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” — David Bowie

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“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.” — Margaret Fuller

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“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

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“Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.” — Paul Walker

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“I write out of my intellectual experience.” — Tom Stoppard

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“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.” — Emma Watson

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“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.” — Doug Coupland

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“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.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” — Earl Wilson

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