Category

Experience

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. – Bryant H. McGill

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. – Emil Zatopek

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. – William E. Gladstone

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future! – Dan Quayle

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. – Brian Eno

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. – Brian Eno

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. – Muhammad Iqbal

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. – Sacha Guitry

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. – Marco Rubio

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

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. – Daniel Radcliffe

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. – Ann Coulter

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

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

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. – Jackie Kennedy

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. – W. H. Auden

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