Experience Quotes

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.

Gretchen Rubin

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

Gail Sheehy

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Gail Simmons

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so...

George P. Shultz

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

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

George Santayana

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

George Saunders

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely stee...

George Saunders

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

George Strait

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

Georg Solti

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to ...

Gloria Steinem

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Gloria Steinem

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Gordon Strachan

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Gus Van Sant

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Gus Van Sant

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

Guillermo del Toro