Of Experience Quotes

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

I love being a human being, my time and experience here has become even more treasured since I turned to acting.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

Everyone can experience loving himself and opening up to awareness.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Information is alienated experience.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

If you want to experience miracles, you have to believe before seeing.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.