Experience Quotes

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.