Of Experience Quotes

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.

Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Experience is low; confidence is high.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.

People say to me that I cant be nervous because Ive had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

I've worked with some great people [in Star Trek], and I was paid handsomely, and it was a nice role. So the whole experience was positive for me.

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.