Experience Quotes

• I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Life
  • Appreciation

• I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

  

  Lauren Miller
  • Time
  • School
  • Experience

• I was 15 when I read the script for 'Earth to Echo.' I thought it was amazing, and I couldn't think of turning it down. It's awesome for a kid from Brooklyn to have an opportunity to be on the big screen. And I had a great experience learning what the movie business is like. So, I'm glad I did it.

  

  Astro
  • Great
  • Business
  • Movie

• I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Memories

• Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused? - Experience, old people's experience.

  

  Isak Dinesen
  • Experience
  • Bought
  • Offered

• You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Experience
  • Motherhood

• It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Theory
  • Elelements

• Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Earth

• Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.

  

  David Chalmers
  • World
  • Experience
  • Mysterious

• The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Action

• I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Women
  • Feeling

• Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Hand
  • Opportunities

• This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.

  

  David Deida
  • Fear
  • Moments
  • Growth

• I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
  • Trust
  • Ignore

• So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Mother
  • Period
  • Sick

• Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Experience

• To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Means

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