Of Experience Quotes

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I do not have very much office experience.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

Based on past experience, I hope not.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.