Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things but I haven't done a lot of things.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect including how she is treated by the media.