Quotes About Experience

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]