Quotes About Experience

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.