Quotes About Experience

Readers are made not born.

We throw ourselves into the journey and when it's done, even while having learned that all experience involves the loss of something beloved, what is ledt in the residue of memory is love.

On contact with sensuous experience, the intellect is able to generate first principles, and, with their help, it gradually builds up what it knows. But it is thus able to construct truth only because it is itself a participation in Truth. The mind is the light of divine truth -- analogically speaking, by way of participation. It is a participated likeness of the uncreated light in which the ideas of all things dwell.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. I think of it like my shadow — sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me.

First, we must Experience God in everything Beautiful. Then, we will see Everything Beautiful as God.

Life is a Drama, We Come and we Go. Before the curtains are drawn, We must Enjoy the Show!"

Unless you Renounce, you can't see the Divine...but the moment you Experience the Divine, you don't need to Renounce.

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

We can develop wisdom through the conditions and the experiences that we have in this life—which are not guaranteed always to be the best.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

you should try living inside the skin of someone with one of those doomed tattoos. In any case, it's not as if I have any great desire to live to a ripe old age, so it doesn't matter. If I can just live a short life, and live it fully, that's enough for me. Cry a little, laugh a little, and then it's over.

Anyone who would buy into that load of moronic propaganda they call the Pronouncement from Imperial Headquarters would have to be soft in the head, don't you think? Let's just say that participating in the war wasn't exactly my idea of a delightful experience. Day after day we would sink innumerable enemy aircraft carriers and battleships. I remember counting sixty ships destroyed, each one full of men who probably didn't want to be fighting any more than we did.

Within each film I have become one with many different kinds of people, and I have lived their lives. For this reason, in order to prepare for the making of a new film, it requires a tremendous effort to forget the people in the film that went before.

For a director, each work he completes is like a whole lifetime. I have lived many whole lifetimes with the films I have made, and I have experienced a different life-style with each one as well.

But lately tenpura-soba doesn't taste like it used to.

Through all of this my father did not let me loose to spin on my own. He just kept telling me, as I became more and more panicky, "Don't panic. There's nothing to get excited about." He told me if I would just wait calmly, my road in life would open up to me of its own accord. I don't know exactly what kind of viewpoint led him to tell me such things; perhaps he was speaking from his own experience of life. As it turned out, his words proved amazingly accurate.

I can't help wondering what fate had prepared me so well for this road I was to take in life. All I can say is that the preparation was totally unconscious on my part.

I think this was the first time I ever experienced the savagery that lies in the human heart. I could never find pleasure studying under this teacher. But I acquired a determination to work so hard that this teacher would never be able to criticize me again.

The result of my newfound courage was climbing the waterfall tunnel, slipping and going over the falls and later diving into a whirlpool. Not very smart. But even though I pursued such foolishness, in the course of this one summer vacation this particular descendant of Abe Sadato became considerably more robust.

I had slept like a log, and I couldn't remember anything frightening from my dreams. This seemed so strange to me that I asked my brother how it could have come about. "If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of." Looking back on that excursion now, I realize that it must have been horrifying for my brother too. It had been an expedition to conquer fear.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.