Top 1200 Practical Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

Travelling is an experience and you have to experience it as a whole.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

Experience is only half of experience.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

The entire experience of 'Sonali Cable' has been beautiful. It has been a long journey for me, both physically and emotionally and a great learning experience.

My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.