Through Quotes

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

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.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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.

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

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Freedom can occur only through education.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.