Of Experience Quotes

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

God is an experience of supreme love.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

hindsight is gained through experience

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

'Leonie' did get made and it was an extremely wonderful experience. I got to travel the world. I filmed for 6 months - 3 months in New Orleans and 3 months in Japan.

I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it’s a really incredible feeling. I’m so grateful I get to experience this.

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, its a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

You do not invite experience with your 'yes' and exclude it with your 'no'. There is no exclusion in this attraction-based Universe. Your focus in the invitation.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.