Experience Quotes

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

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.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

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.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

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.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

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.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.