In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
