Quotes About Experience

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

I have seen several hardships since I was a child. As a result, I don't perceive things the way most people do.

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

Ninety-nine percent of people who drive cars are not car experts.

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

'Perception' was a different show than 'Will & Grace'. 'Will & Grace' was obviously a different show than anything I'd done before.

The longer I have played, the perception of myself has changed. I conduct myself to other players a bit better.

Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.