Of Experience Quotes

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job offer. He very kindly agreed to be part of it and it was an amazing experience.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

TV needs advertising for more than just the money. Advertising plays a significant role in creating a dynamic and vibrant medium and needs to be at the heart of the experience.

I'm inspired by it all - the good and the not so good - because every experience is an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...

Keep on playing the Experience!

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.

If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I like the experience of being in a shoot, and I'm a total exhibitionist, but I don't like to look at them.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience