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Quotes About Experience

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.
~ Walton Goggins
People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
~ Jodi Picoult
Seskin has the gift of song...his voice has a natural lilt that can't be learned. The combination of musicianship and repertoire make for a rich and satisfying musical experience.
~ Joel Selvin
Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.
~ Jennifer Pharr Davis
My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.
~ Joan Larkin
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
~ John Barrowman
If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.
~ John de Ruiter
Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.
~ John de Ruiter
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
~ Terence McKenna
I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
~ Truman Capote
Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.
~ John Dewey
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
~ John Dewey
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.
~ John Fowles
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.
~ John Green
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
~ Tommy Lee
I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.
~ Jim Gaffigan
When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
~ Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
~ John Dewey
What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
~ Simon Mainwaring
After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?
~ John McCain
Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.
~ John C. Maxwell
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
~ John Paul Caponigro