Of Experience Quotes

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

We all shared this experience. We all had one brain, we were one giant organism working and having joy. "What about Walken?" Sorry, bro...Maybe I should've done an hour and 34 minutes.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's definitely an honour to represent my home country once again in the Commonwealth Games. It is going to be a magical experience and to be considered as a role model is a reward in itself.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling into what was probably a dreamy smile.

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.

Pentecostals believe they experience the power of the Holy Spirit at various times. I believe that also since I have experienced it first-hand. It's not something that can be easily explained.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

One of the things that makes this show unique, in terms of an experience, is that when you do a show that has a large cast, scheduling is a very difficult thing.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

I think the person who has the experience, the depth and the values to take us forward is Theresa May who I think will be absolutely outstanding.

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

All experience helps when you write.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.