Experience Quotes
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One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.
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Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
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Because the Spanish eat so crazily late - anybody who's been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30 P.M. to find themselves the first customer in the restaurant - they tend to favour an early-evening drink and a nibble to keep them going.
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You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.
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As my friend Ed Tronick taught me a long time ago, the brain is a cultural organ—experience shapes the brain.
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Experience makes us wise.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
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At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
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People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
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There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.
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Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.
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You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
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To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
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Our experience with Marvel has been amazing, and we really do feel like we're in our creative sweet spot there.
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I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
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Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
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How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
