Quotes About Experience

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

There are many things that you just observe while watching Steyn. Just seeing him bowl is a great learning in itself.

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there's always something to learn.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

I was only 18 when I made 'A Taste Of Honey' in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.