Experience Quotes

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.