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Experience Quotes
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding."
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"Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it."
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"Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales."
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"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
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"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations."
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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."
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"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
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"On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions."
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"It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break."
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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience."
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"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
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"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
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"It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization."
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"Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging."
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"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."
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"If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm."
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"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
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"Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development."
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"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
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"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
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"Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions."
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"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience."
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"I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach."
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"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone."
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"You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience."
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"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."
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"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
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"It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people."
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"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."
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"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
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"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds."
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"I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."
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"Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down."
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"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."
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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."
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"While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration."
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"I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9."
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"As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years."
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"All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine."
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"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."
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"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
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"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
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"I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience."
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"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
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"I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here."
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