Of Experience Quotes

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.

I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.

I would say my life experience has involved dealing with people very close to me that have died.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it.

In this league, experience means a lot.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

I really value passion for the product above experience.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.

My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.

So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I want to make sure all Minnesotans have the opportunity to experience prosperity.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.