Quotes About Experience

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.