Of Experience Quotes

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

And as an actor, just working with someone as seasoned and professional and kind as Richard Jenkins, it's always a learning experience watching him - on camera and off camera, just soaking it all up.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I still live. Pretty.

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.