We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! Margaret J. Wheatley on experience
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. Ang Lee on experience
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. Ang Lee on experience
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. Henry Louis Gates on experience
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. Janice Dickinson on experience
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on experience
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. Edward Witten on experience
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. Ezra Taft Benson on experience
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. Calvin Klein on experience
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser on experience
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. Muhammad Iqbal on experience
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. Muhammad Iqbal on experience
It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen. Louis C. K. on experience
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. David Ogilvy on experience
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. Thor Heyerdahl on experience
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. Edward Zwick on experience
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. Bram Stoker on experience
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. Thabo Mbeki on experience
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.' David O. Russell on experience
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. Martha Beck on experience