Experience quotes

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.