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Quotes About Experience

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.
~ Vera Nazarian
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.
~ Peter L. Berger
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
~ Henri Matisse
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
~ Oliver Stone
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I've seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
~ A. O. Scott
But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
~ Dennis Eckersley
Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.
~ Shahzia Sikander
Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.
~ Jim Jefferies
I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.
~ Julie Benz
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
~ Joe Haldeman
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
~ Nick Nolte
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
~ David Chalmers
Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.
~ Lana Del Rey
Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.
~ Dev Hynes
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.
~ Denis Donoghue
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.
~ Anais Nin
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
~ Prince Philip
We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.
~ Stephen Levine
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
~ David Bentley Hart
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.
~ Asger Jorn