Of Experience Quotes

To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul.

The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it.

You don't know what's happening the next moment, in anybody's life, and you just have to pick up and move on and try to learn from the experience and make the best of it.

It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.

Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.

I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.