Quotes About Experience

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Die with memories, not dreams.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.