Experience Quotes
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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
Claire Messud
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby
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The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
Chogyam Trungpa
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The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
I. M. Pei
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In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others because I see my quiltmaking as my experience which has nothing to do with other people.
Nancy Crow
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It's something that can get overwhelming and frustrating, the sexism I experience in my career. It's just obviously a big issue in women's sport, like salaries, media coverage, just general things that you have to cope with in your career.
Lizzie Armitstead
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
Harold Pinter
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Babasaheb
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But what good’s abundance if nobody can experience it?
Karl Schroeder
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
Bashar al-Assad
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No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.
Clark Gregg
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Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
David Dobkin
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
T. D. Jakes
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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney
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When you awaken - or seem to awaken - in the middle of the night, try to get out of the body and go into another room. This is a pleasant and easy method. With some experience you will discover that you can maintain control, walk out of the apartment and outside. You may then attempt to normal locomotion or levitate.
Jane Roberts
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
David Riesman
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Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.
Mark Margolis
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
Elvis Costello
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
Warren Spector
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Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
Paul Allen
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida