Of Experience Quotes

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said."I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.

No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.