Top 1200 School Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

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

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

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

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

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

The last couple of years have been a good learning experience for me and a good journey. My first world title fight I fought Erik Morales and how much experience do you think you can get from that? A lot of people thought he would beat me because of experience. I've faced a lot of experienced fighters.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

Every time you have a big blast-out experience you think that's the ultimate-everything, and of course it isn't, although you can get hints. The key however, is not to take those hint experiences to be the ultimate experience. There always needs to be a balance. For example, when you find something, by having some experience, you always want to keep looking because there could be more to it.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman

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

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

At my last job in the tech world, we'd throttle our wi-fi to experience what download speeds might be like for someone in the developing world. It was our attempt to experience it first hand. I thought it was a bit ridiculous because, no matter what we did, we wouldn't be able to fully experience their world unless we were living it every day.