Quotes for Experience

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.

Gianluigi Buffon

Every moment is an experience.

Jake Roberts

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Emerson

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Denis Waitley

It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

John Kennedy

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Hunter S. Thompson

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

Sam Shepard

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Jim Rohn

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

Ferdinand Marcos

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

Rachel Morrison

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James