#experience

"Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."

"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us."

"Experience is the best teacher."

"By seeking and blundering we learn."

"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"

"All knowledge hurts."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

"When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'"

"If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times."

"Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart."

"Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together."

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them"

"Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office."

"Wisdom comes from education and experience—not from age."