Famous Quotes
- Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
- Max Lucado on Experience
- Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
- Dave Eggers on Experience
- Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- George Will on Experience
- What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
- David Hockney on Experience
- What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell on Experience
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
- Tony Campolo on Experience
- 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 on Experience
- What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Experience
- What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
- William Blake on Experience
- What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
- Tracey Emin on Experience
- What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
- Isadora Duncan on Experience
- What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
- David Ogden Stiers on Experience
- What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
- Paul Feig on Experience
- Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
- Michelle Williams on Experience
- Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
- Rachael Ray on Experience
- Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
- Brian Tracy on Experience
- When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
- Shirley MacLaine on Experience
- When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
- Jane Smiley on Experience
- When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
- Peter Singer on Experience
- When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Experience
- When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
- Al Yankovic on Experience
- When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.
- Roger Clemens on Experience
- When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
- Leslie Fiedler on Experience
- When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
- Ron Wyden on Experience
- When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
- Jennifer Lopez on Experience
- When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
- Eddie Van Halen on Experience
- When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
- Chester Bennington on Experience
- When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
- Charlie Kaufman on Experience
- When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Experience
- When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
- Jasper Johns on Experience
- When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
- Mitch Daniels on Experience
- When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
- Charles Stanley on Experience
- When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- Allen Klein on Experience
- When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
- Vin Diesel on Experience
- When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.
- Jo Nesbo on Experience
- When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
- David Antin on Experience
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
- Albert Camus on Experience
- When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
- Barbara De Angelis on Experience
- When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.
- Mayer Hawthorne on Experience
- Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.
- Tori Spelling on Experience
- Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
- Eric Butterworth on Experience
- Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
- Sonia Sotomayor on Experience
- While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
- Barney Frank on Experience
- While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
- Russell Crowe on Experience
- While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
- Samuel Dash on Experience
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
- Abigail Adams on Experience
- With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
- Jane Campion on Experience
- With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
- Gus Van Sant on Experience
- With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.
- Andrea Arnold on Experience
- Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
- Lewis Mumford on Experience
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