Of Experience Quotes

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

Experience is a safe guide.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.

I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

God gave us creation to enjoy it. I believe this is the reason we fight against injustice so that all of creation can experience the beauty of God's goodness and grace.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.