Of Experience Quotes

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I experience God as the power of love.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

I don't have faith, I have experience.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?