Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
~By John L. Phillips ~
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
~By Albert Camus ~
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
~By Henry Reed ~
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
~By Rene Daumal ~
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
~By John Eaton ~
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
~By Tom Wilson ~
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
~By John Keats ~
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
~By Roy Romer ~
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
~By Imran Khan ~
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
~By Doug Coupland ~
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.
~By Justin Guarini ~
I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
~By Glenn Ford ~
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
~By Rick Warren ~
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
~By Wil Wheaton ~
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
~By Montserrat Caballe ~
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
~By Walter Pater ~
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
~By Roger Ascham ~
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.
~By Dario Argento ~
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
~By Otto Dix ~
Every moment is an experience.
~By Jake Roberts ~
So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
~By Basil C. Hume ~
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
~By Imran Khan ~
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
~By Aaron Neville ~
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
~By Michael Bolton ~
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
~By Charles Simic ~
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
~By Letitia Landon ~
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
~By Roger Bacon ~
I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.
~By Josh Lucas ~
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
~By Terri Windling ~
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
~By Luther Vandross ~
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
~By Elvis Costello ~
I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
~By Walter Salles ~
I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
~By Jim Cole ~
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
~By Warren Farrell ~
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
~By Jodie Foster ~
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
~By Otto Rank ~
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
~By Matthew Fox ~
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
~By Lou Holtz ~
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
~By Kate Millett ~
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.
~By Terrence Howard ~
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
~By Terry Southern ~
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
~By William H. Macy ~
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
~By Ruth Hubbard ~
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
~By Henry Ford ~
Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.
~By John Glover ~
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
~By Fred Durst ~
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
~By Charlton Heston ~
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
~By Paul Krugman ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
You know, I have no worst experiences.
~By Bob Denver ~
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.
~By Ashleigh Banfield ~
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
~By Amy Grant ~
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
~By Steven Levy ~
I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
~By Tim Robbins ~
You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
~By John Fiske ~
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
~By Dan Quayle ~
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