Top 467 Experience Quotes

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

Norman Finkelstein

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

John Harsanyi

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Bill Ackman

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.

Helen Garner

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.

Colum McCann

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Ricky Martin

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

David Neeleman

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

James Schuyler

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