Quotes About Experience

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

I've always felt the easiest way to get to know new culture is through its food even if you don't speak the language. Food will do it for you. It's an universal language.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Although a number of network security programs are already emerging in colleges and universities, security is a field that benefits from hands-on experience in real-world situations.

I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton's Gentleman's Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.