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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering. -- Jim Caviezel
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. -- Menander
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. -- Martin Luther
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. -- Paul Lynde
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. -- Joseph Campbell
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? -- Christine Pelosi
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. -- Abraham Verghese
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. -- Keith Henson
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. -- Walter Bagehot
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient. -- Sheri Fink
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. -- Laurie Garrett
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. -- Henri La Fontaine
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. -- John Holmes
I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. -- Viswanathan Anand
The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016. -- Nick Turse
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom. -- Walter Kirn
I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid. -- James McAvoy
Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well. -- Mary Roach
I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery. -- Eva Herzigova
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! -- Alexander the Great
I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. -- Dave Barry
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. -- Arthur Smith
All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms. -- Martin Frost
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence. -- George C. Williams
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. -- George Savile
An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change. -- Eric Shinseki
Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them. -- M. Ageyev
If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment. -- Roh Moo-hyun
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. -- John Dewey
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. -- Abraham Maslow
Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs. -- Steve Kroft
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. -- W. Edwards Deming
John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq. -- Craig Kilborn
[O]rganizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable. -- Fritjof Capra
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change. -- Jacque Fresco
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes. -- Hermann Hesse
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it. -- Donald Johanson
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it. -- Jane Roberts
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low. -- Alice Meynell
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. -- Zhuangzi
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... -- Al Gore
I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy. -- David Souter
As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution? -- Leroy Cronin
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. -- Sundar Pichai
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. -- Truman Capote
Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage. -- J. K. Rowling
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting. -- Paul Singer
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same. -- Isadora Duncan
To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. -- Ronald Kessler
Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart. -- L. Whitney Clayton
Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them. -- Friedrich Schiller
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. -- Victor Hugo
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being. -- Gaston Bachelard
Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history. -- Jacob Schiff
The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.' -- William Doyle
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials. -- Plotinus
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo -- Erwin Rommel
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses. -- Steve Kubby
As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die. -- Haruki Murakami
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine. -- Francisco Varela
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It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself. -- Abelardo Morell
Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do. -- Nhat Hanh
To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that! -- Laozi
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning. -- John Dewey
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo. -- Joseph Addison
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay. -- Gautama Buddha
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible. -- Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. -- Fritjof Capra
We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative. -- Piet Mondrian
The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. -- Dave Barry
For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine. -- John Burnside

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