Of Experience Quotes

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

I want to create an experience with my music.

Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

I was done with wrestling and I was teaching with competition behind me. It was that experience that gave me confidence and propelled me to fight.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

Anything for gold and experience.

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

It's so hard sometimes, living in this world. But I know from experience, it can always get better if you're willing to ask for help.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

Im still getting more familiar with the plays and different things, but I think that will come along with getting more experience and getting to know the guys better.

I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.