Experience Quotes
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.
