Of Experience Quotes

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.

And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

Wagyu is something that every meat lover should experience at least once.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Everything you experience in your life is invited, attracted and created by you.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

I honestly dont know whether I can ever top the experience of Pacific Rim.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.