Of Experience Quotes

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

Solitude is separate experience.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

Whatever you've accomplished, there's always more to experience.

It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

Colors are things we experience.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.

I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.