Quotes About Experience

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.