Of Experience Quotes

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.

Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.