Quotes About Experience

I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

The black children I have come to know in different parts of this country, even those from relatively well-off homes, say critical things about America and its leaders at an earlier age than white children do — and connect their general observations to specific experiences. A black child of eight, in rural Mississippi or in a northern ghetto, an Indian or Chicano or Appalachian child, can sound like a disillusioned old radical.

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Such work as is overtly political has usually been the result of neither experience nor insight, those essentials to any true creation, but rather of the frigid projection on to unsuitable material of opinions learnt in the abstract, ideologies accepted on trust.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

To be in love is like going out- side to see what kind of day it is.

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.

Good CIOs are hard to find. Even if you can find one, it may take as much as a year for a CIO new to the company to learn the company environment and become an effective leader.

Like serious reading itself, travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.

And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

A liberating way to view time, I find, is as splodges lying in clusters all around me. Instead of hopping obediently from link to link along a chain toward extinction, I pause in a puddle of it here and wallow in a pool of it there.

To those who enjoy breathing the smell of incense, I recommend a different profession. The photographer pulls the sleeve of the rushed man with a blank stare and shows him the free and permanent show of the street.

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.