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Experience Quotes
"Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic."
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"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
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"You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness."
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"With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks."
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"I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth."
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"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"
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"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."
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"Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated."
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"The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience."
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"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
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"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
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"Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress."
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"I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience."
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"In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down."
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"England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience."
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"The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break."
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"I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor."
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"My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid."
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"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."
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"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
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"I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been."
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"If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void."
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"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."
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"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing."
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"I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it."
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"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light."
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"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."
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"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent."
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"It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up."
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"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
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"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
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"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best."
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"When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast."
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"I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience."
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"In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can."
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"We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience."
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"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."
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"This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously."
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"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."
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"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."
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"Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity."
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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
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"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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