Experience Quotes

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.