Of Experience Quotes

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

When you open an Apple product it's like a religious experience.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.