“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
Experience is what you get when you did not get what you wanted — and these quotes prove that the lessons of lived experience are impossible to shortcut. They cover wisdom earned the hard way, the value of mistakes, and why secondhand knowledge only gets you so far.
“How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?”
“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”
“Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.”
“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.”
“I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.”
“In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.”
“Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.”
“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.”
“You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.”
“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.”
“I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.”
“The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.”
“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
“I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.”