Quotes About Experience

The encounter with Campbell was, for me and many other people, a life-changing experience. A few days of exploring the labyrinth of his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces produced an electrifying reorganization of my life and thinking. Here, fully explored, was the pattern I had been sensing. Campbell had broken the secret code of story. His work was like a flare suddenly illuminating a deeply shadowed landscape

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

Dan had discovered that he had been mistaken, that books did not exist outside of the body and only in mind, but that words were breath, that they were experienced and understood through the inseparability of mind and body, that words were the water and reading was swimming. Just as he had in water, he could lose himself in reading: mind and body became one.

was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

A path is made by walking on it.

One day you wake up and you're old as shit.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Prosperity is an ongoing experience that is produced by thinking the way God thinks. This produces wholeness in our lives and makes things complete around us. Repentance leads to joy, which results in prosperity.

Hiring a guy with more confirmed kills than college credits was a tough sell.

The road is better than the end.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

When people ask me how old I am, I tell them I'm 39–with 25 years of experience.

I think you can learn from history.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I don't want to die without any scars.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.