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Experience Quotes
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea."
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"Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience."
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"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."
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"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
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"I like doing movies that relate to people's experience."
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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
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"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."
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"I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience."
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"Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience."
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"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
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"Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience."
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"We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the unreal twilight, fitfully like the echo of voices laughing down some alley, geniality returned to me and flesh. Against the gateway, against some cedar tree I saw blaze bright, Neville, Jinny, Rhoda, Louis, Susan and myself, our life, our identity. Still King William seemed an unreal monarch and his crown mere tinsel. But we, against the brick, against the branches, we six, out of how many million millions, for one moment out of what measureless abundance of past time and time to come, burnt there triumphant. The moment was all; the moment was enough."
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"The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own."
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"I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model."
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"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."
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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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"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."
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"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
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"I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience."
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"I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life."
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"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."
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"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
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"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."
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"In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience."
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"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
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"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
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"I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once."
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"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."
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"If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not."
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"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."
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"Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience."
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"Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written."
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"Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world."
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"Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience."
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"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."
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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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"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not."
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"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
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"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride."
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"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
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"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved."
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"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."
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"Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results."
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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
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