Experienced Quotes

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
― David Attenborough

“Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able to say no at any point, and he must honor that denial. It is criminal that so many girls and women are raped today. Fully 60 percent of all females who lose their virginity before age fifteen say that their first sexual experience was forced! That is a tragedy with far-reaching consequences.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A whirlwind of panic swept through her as Derek stripped off his white shirt. She switched her gaze to the floor, but not before she had seen how large and formidable his body was, his torso heavily muscled, his chest covered with thick black hair. Silvery scars marked his skin, legacies of his life in the rookery. He was a man of vast experience. All that was new and frightening to her was commonplace to him.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“We can read every book and stare at every piece of art about the pain of love, but we never know how much it hurts to be exposed until it's real to us. It's a feeling so foreign to our base state that it is impossible to imagine.”
― Ali Rosen, Recipe for Second Chances

“Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Having experienced the Disability and Workers Compensation systems, I can understand why they drive people to suicide.”
― Steven Magee

“2020 was by far the most interesting year that I experienced in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I would respect him. […] I also needed somebody quite experienced to make up for my lack of it […].”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“প্রেমিকরা কখনও অভিজ্ঞ হয় না। অভিজ্ঞ লোকেরা প্রেমিক হতে পারে না।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay

“Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You do not see the bitter and sweet taste of life before you have experienced that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“As an experienced electrical engineer in the USA, I was earning in excess of $100,000 annual salary plus benefits. There was no incentive whatsoever to be disabled and in poverty on a corporate government disability program.”
― Steven Magee

“The most extreme weather I have experienced was on top of high altitude mountain summits at astronomical observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“Death is not experienced,
it is only witnessed.”
― Chris Ernest Nelson

“Don’t wait for experiences to learn. It’s better to learn from the experienced than experience.”
― Sijin Bt

“I began to delight in surprising adults with my refined palate and disgusting my inexperienced peers with what I would discover to be some of nature's greatest gifts. By the age of ten I had learned to break down a full lobster with my bare hands and a nutcracker. I devoured steak tartare, pâtés, sardines, snails baked in butter and smothered with roasted garlic. I tried raw sea cucumber, abalone, and oysters on the half shell. At night my mother would roast dried cuttlefish on a camp stove in the garage and serve it with a bowl of peanuts and a sauce of red pepper paste mixed with Japanese mayonnaise. My father would tear it into strips and we'd eat it watching television together until our jaws were sore, and I'd wash it all down with small sips from one of my mother's Coronas.
Neither one of my parents graduated from college. I was not raised in a household with many books or records. I was not exposed to fine art at a young age or taken to any museums or plays at established cultural institutions. My parents wouldn't have known the names of authors I should read or foreign directors I should watch. I was not given an old edition of Catcher in the Rye as a preteen, copies of Rolling Stones records on vinyl, or any kind of instructional material from the past that might help give me a leg up to cultural maturity. But my parents were worldly in their own ways. They had seen much of the world and had tasted what it had to offer. What they lacked in high culture, they made up for by spending their hard-earned money on the finest of delicacies. My childhood was rich with flavor---blood sausage, fish intestines, caviar. They loved good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“The worst insomnia I have experienced in life occurred during using a CPAP machine.”
― Steven Magee

“Anyone with a brain in their head could run a restaurant they'd worked at since they were old enough to bus a table. A restaurant where the menu was a twentieth-century relic. Choice of meat on a toasted roll. Shells and cheese. Shoestring fries. Apple pie à la mode, and brownies, also à la mode, courtesy of a big plop of store-bought ice cream. Bottled chocolate syrup on request.”
― Chandra Blumberg, Digging Up Love

“The words of an experienced man is like a salt that preserves.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Having experienced light sensitivity during radiation detoxification, I can understand how people with light sensitivity would turn into lunatics when sleeping in moonlight.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the worst health conditions I have experienced was fecal urgency!”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Looking back now, I wonder if I was observant enough. Certainly I was alert---I always am, during fieldwork---but I suspect that the unfamiliarity of the landscape, the high, dark mountains swaddled in snow, lulled me into a belief that no living thing could accost me here, certainly nothing fae, creatures I have spent my career associating with greenery and water and life.
Fortunately, my reflexes are sharp. The instant the light flared through the trees, I halted and gripped my coin. It was a grayish light with no warmth in it, like a star. A wind moved through the trees, and there came a whisper of bells. Had I not been touching metal, I might have been bespelled, and as it was my head still spun a little, but I am used to brushing against faerie enchantments and stood my ground.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Research shows that doctors who have been in practice for 20 years are usually less skilled than they were fresh out of medical school. These older doctors are stuck in habitual ways of thinking and acting, and haven’t updated their models or approaches for years. Rather than having 20 years of experience, they often have 1 year of experience repeated 20 times.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“After all that practicing, so many years of my life devoted to cakes and pies and tarts. So much time spent on fondants and days upon days of piping icing onto sheets of torn cardboard, until every line, every green frosted petal and sugary pink rosebud is just perfect.”
― Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

“A desire for the spiritual had awakened inside of me, but I wasn’t sure how to address it. Each time I experienced God, I realized that I wasn’t alone, and that there was much more to this life, but because of my negative experiences with religion, I refused to seek God in any traditional setting.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose