Quotes About Experience

I have no urge to go back to college.

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.

It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.