Of Experience Quotes

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

I loved the college experience of studying.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.