Kilian Experience Quotes

Patriotism was a fool's religion, a crude social bonding device that defeated itself by inciting violence and inviting reprisal. ~ Crawford Kilian

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life. ~ Crawford Kilian

Isn't victory being able to push our bodies and minds to their limits and, in doing so, discovering that they have led us to find ourselves anew and to create new dreams? ~ Kilian Jornet

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to. ~ Crawford Kilian

A race is a life that is born when you get up in the morning and dies when you cross the finish line. ~ Kilian Jornet

Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage ~ M.L. Kilian

I am not afraid to fail; to get lost, to dream, to be myself, to find. I am not afraid to live. ~ Kilian Jornet

We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies."
"They'd make poor spies, They get everything wrong"
General Grant and General Sherman ~ Micael Kilian - "Shiloh Sisters"

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject. ~ Crawford Kilian

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. ~ Kilian Jornet

Thresholds don't exist in terms of our bodies. Our speed and strength depend on our body, but the real thresholds, those that make us give up or continue the struggle, those that enable us to fulfill our dreams, depend not on our bodies but on our minds and the hunger we feel to turn dreams into reality. ~ Kilian Jornet

The secret isn't in your legs, but in your strength of mind. You need to go for a run when it is raining, windy, and snowing, when lightning sets trees on fire as you pass them, when snowflakes or hailstones strike your legs and body in the storm and make you weep, and in order to keep running, you have to wipe away the tears to see the stones, walls, or sky. ~ Kilian Jornet

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. ~ R.D. Laing

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. ~ Terry Pratchett

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. ~ Michael A. Singer

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. ~ Albert Einstein

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. ~ Immanuel Kant

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. ~ Sydney Banks

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a
positive experience. ~ Mark Manson

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. ~ Albert Einstein

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. ~ Immanuel Kant

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience. ~ DaShanne Stokes

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. ~ Flannery O'Connor

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state. ~ Jon Runyan

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. ~ Kobo Abe

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. ~ Howie Mandel

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience. ~ Gautama Buddha

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. ~ Twyla Tharp

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience. ~ Charley Pride

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. ~ Mike Leigh

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience. ~ Leslie Morgan Steiner

Producing is just a big learning experience. ~ Ashley Tisdale

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence. ~ Toni Sorenson

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ~ Norman Lear

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience. ~ Greg Baxter

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while. ~ Jay Woodman

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people. ~ Jeremy Corbyn

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience. ~ Adam Scott

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour. ~ Xander Berkeley

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. ~ William Morris

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it ~ Bill Moggridge

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience. ~ Linda Ronstadt

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. ~ Willie Stargell

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. ~ Immanuel Kant

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. ~ Terence McKenna

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition? ~ Peter Thiel

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. ~ D.T. Suzuki

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set. ~ Terence McKenna

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life. ~ Andy Stanley

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ~ Bernard Baruch

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that. ~ Stella Young

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience. ~ Mariel Hemingway

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience. ~ Bob McNair

You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled. ~ Trevanian

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience. ~ Alice McDermott

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things. ~ George Santayana

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes. ~ Mark Twain

The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had. ~ Roberta Williams

I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously. ~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience. ~ Howie Mandel

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. ~ Joseph Roux

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. ~ Frederick Lenz

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. ~ Adrian Mitchell

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience - but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience. ~ Chogyam Trungpa

Put faith in one who's had experience. ~ Ovid

It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness ~ Louis L'Amour

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. ~ Joseph Story

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it. ~ Geoffrey Wood

Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious. ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience. ~ Bernie Siegel

We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience. ~ John Dewey

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ~ George Eliot

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ~ H.L. Mencken

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. ~ E.L. Doctorow

I loved the college experience of studying. ~ Bradley Cooper

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn. ~ Yogi Berra

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. ~ Bryan Cranston

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ~ Chinua Achebe

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere. ~ Benny Blanco

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience. ~ Joss Whedon

Wisdom comes from experience, either the experience of others or of oneself. And to let experience do its work, a person has to be open to receiving the lessons that it has to teach. ~ Henry Cloud

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through. ~ Margaret Whiting

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. ~ Charles Stanley

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience. ~ Terence McKenna

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin. ~ Donatella Versace

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. ~ Marissa Mayer

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience. ~ Alison Owen

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career. ~ Gillian Jacobs

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different. ~ Nile Rodgers

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. ~ Regina Spektor

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high ~ Heinrich Heine