Famous Quotes
- Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
- Daniel Libeskind on Experience
- Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
- April Winchell on Experience
- Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
- W. Clement Stone on Experience
- Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
- Carlos Fuentes on Experience
- Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Experience
- Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
- Susan Orlean on Experience
- Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
- Thomas Wolfe on Experience
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- Orlando Bloom on Experience
- Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
- Brooke Shields on Experience
- Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
- H. L. Mencken on Experience
- Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
- Robert Wyatt on Experience
- Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Experience
- Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
- David Copperfield on Experience
- Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
- Scott Weiland on Experience
- Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.
- Tony Kushner on Experience
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
- Sai Baba on Experience
- Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
- Margaret Fuller on Experience
- Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
- David Mitchell on Experience
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- Eric Hoffer on Experience
- Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller on Experience
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
- Bell Hooks on Experience
- Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
- Joyce Maynard on Experience
- Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
- Evelyn Glennie on Experience
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
- Virginia Woolf on Experience
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Walter Benjamin on Experience
- Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- Ron Wyden on Experience
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw on Experience
- Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
- Rashida Jones on Experience
- Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
- Catherine Deneuve on Experience
- Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
- Denis Waitley on Experience
- More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
- Vivienne Westwood on Experience
- Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
- Andrew Cohen on Experience
- Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
- Albert Bandura on Experience
- Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
- Diane Arbus on Experience
- Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.
- Diane Keaton on Experience
- Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
- Kenneth Branagh on Experience
- Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.
- Jared Leto on Experience
- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
- Charlie Parker on Experience
- My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
- David Schwimmer on Experience
- My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Experience
- My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
- Laura Linney on Experience
- My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
- Thomas Huxley on Experience
- My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
- Mike Mills on Experience
- My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
- Ally Sheedy on Experience
- My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
- Ann Romney on Experience
- My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.
- Michelle Bachelet on Experience
- My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
- Alan Cumming on Experience
- My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.
- Andrea Arnold on Experience
- My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
- Aeschylus on Experience
- My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
- Bruce Springsteen on Experience
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