Quotes about 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.”

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”

“I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.”

“I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.”

“I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision.”

“I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.”

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

“I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.”

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

“There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.”

“The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it's as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal - what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.”

“Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.”

“When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”

“Shooting for Aamar Pratigya' was a completely delightful experience for the 25 days I shot for the film.”

“I thank my dad for the JBA Experience and playing overseas.”

“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”