Quotes About Experience

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.