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Experience Quotes
"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."
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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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"The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking."
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"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."
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"Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good."
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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
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"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."
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"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."
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"We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell."
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"I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience."
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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
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"Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer."
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"I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me."
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"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
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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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"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
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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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"So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that."
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"My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience."
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"When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on."
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"We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic."
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"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
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"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."
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"Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur."
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"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."
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"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree."
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"The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly."
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"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
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"I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
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"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction."
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"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
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"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
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"Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it."
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"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
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"I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience."
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"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
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"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
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"Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil."
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"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
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"Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy."
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"She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience."
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"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is."
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