Experience Quotes

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.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.