Quotes tagged ‘Experience’

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“Everything is there, but there are no parts. Since there are no parts, there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything, or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things, just let yourself soak it all in.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”

— Salvador Dalí, amazon.com

“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds…”

— Martha Washington, amazon.com

“The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus. The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot grasp this one thing: what sin is. Worldly wisdom knows what dis…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. My grandmother used to tell me that a hard head makes a sore ass.”

— Willie Nelson, esquire.com

“Mistakes are opportunities to grow.”

— Lecrae, twitter.com

“Failure has been a great mentor. Taught me to turn my mistakes into lessons.”

— Lecrae, twitter.com

“It’s not easy to bring a new idea into existence. It’s not easy even to stand up and talk about why things need to change. I know that from my own experience as a young adolescent searching for my own voice. It’s a long and difficult process, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s never finished. At…”

— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org

“And in Physical Enquiries, we must endevour to follow Nature in the more plain and easie ways she treads in the most simple and uncompounded bodies, to trace her steps, and be acquainted with her manner of walking there, before we venture our selves into the multitude of meanders she has in bodies o…”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“Well, you got decades of experience. Why don't you tell me how I do that? How I get right with you tryin' to kill a brother behind the club's back and your little trigger boy blowin' an innocent woman's head off?”

— Brett Conrad, Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

“I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you cannot fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“The vast majority of my anger and frustration comes from believing that people have almost limitless untapped potential but they choose to consider themselves finished products instead of works in progress.”

— Elan Gale, twitter.com

“It is important that we learn from the experiences of others rather than simply relying on our own instincts. Our lenses are always blurred with the events of our own lives. Turn off your point of view and listen to someone. It may make you a better and more understanding person.”

— Elan Gale, twitter.com

“I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.”

— Daniel T. Thomsen, Lisa Joy, Bernard Lowe, Jeffrey Wright, imdb.com

“You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.”

— Mike Epps, successories.com

“What is it you do that you're the best in the world at? You offer a service you didn't invent, a formula you didn't invent, a delivery method you didn't invent. Nothing about what you do is patentable or a unique user experience. You haven't identified an isolated market segment, haven't truly brand…”

— Brian Chamberlayne, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com

“"Have you ever took a road trip Is she white, is she brown? I don't know"”

— Fetty Wap, genius.com

“Everyone you meet knows something you don't. Learn from everyone.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

“Go for it. You'll either win or learn. Experience is more valuable than anything.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com