Top 1200 Reading Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

My experience at DePauw was about as beneficial as any experience I've had.

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, parents were upset because their kids were reading dime-store novels. Parents would say, "I don't want you inside reading anymore. Get outside and play." I guarantee you, in 50 years or so, parents are going to say, "You're not going outside to play until you finish that video game."

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but often less well, especially when what we are reading-such as the plays of Shakespeare and Holy Scripture-is a body of oral material that has been, almost but not quite accidentally, captured in a book like a fly in amber.

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

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

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

The whole experience of being on The Walking Dead' is a singular experience.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

But I'm getting to a point where I'm trying to stop reading reviews about myself, only because it's a no-win situation. If they say something nice, you get a little ego pump. But people on the Internet are straight-up cruel, and I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable reading the ridiculous cruelties that people spit out on the Internet.

I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.