Experience Quotes

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

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.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.