Experience Quotes

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.