Quotes About Insight

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

All experience helps when you write.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

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.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.