You cannot learn anything from success you only learn from failure.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

The world is given to me only once not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences for this barrier does not exist.

We certainly want those at the top to do well but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience nor film.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

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.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean so must I never live my life for itself but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.