They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
Every experience makes you grow.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
To walk into the hall of mirrors of Versailles as Louis XIV and deliver a monologue on your own in an empty hall of mirrors is like no other experience.
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.