Of Experience Quotes

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more to do with it; it's their "baby" kind of thing.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

Suffering brings experience.

Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.