To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
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.
It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that’s pretty much everywhere in everyone’s life.
