Experience Quotes

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change.

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.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.