Of Experience Quotes

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

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Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.