Of Experience Quotes

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.