Of Experience Quotes

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing more human in people's relationships than love.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part of this show and the Fringe would be a great experience.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

We had a lot of rehearsals for the original Twilight to get the family to learn each other and experience each other, so we could all be like a family. We spent a lot of time together.

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.