There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

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

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

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