My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
~By Evan Dando ~
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
~By Bob Dylan ~
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
~By Steven Bochco ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
~By Stella Adler ~
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.
~By Martina Hingis ~
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
~By Jack Buck ~
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.
~By Sid Meier ~
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
~By Ernst Mach ~
A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.
~By Alex Comfort ~
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
~By Michel Patini ~
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
~By Francis Bacon ~
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
~By Maria Menounos ~
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 ~
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~By Alice James ~
A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
~By Curt Siodmak ~
This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
~By Neville Marriner ~
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~By Helen Keller ~
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
~By Elliott Smith ~
David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.
~By Anna Friel ~
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
~By E. T. A. Hoffmann ~
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
~By Dee Hock ~
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
~By Noel Redding ~
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
~By Jared Sparks ~
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.
~By Terry Riley ~
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.
~By Gilbert Hernandez ~
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
~By Roger Mahony ~
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
~By Blair Underwood ~
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
~By Blythe Danner ~
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
~By Marissa Mayer ~
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
~By Elvis Costello ~
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
~By Christian Lacroix ~
The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.
~By James Durbin ~
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.
~By Bill McCartney ~
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
~By Silvio Berlusconi ~
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
~By James Baldwin ~
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
~By Terry Prachett ~
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
~By Debbie Harry ~
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
~By Harry Callahan ~
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
~By August Wilson ~
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.
~By Star Jones ~
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
~By James Iha ~
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
~By Carson McCullers ~
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
~By Paula Abdul ~
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 ~
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.
~By Michael Burgess ~
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
~By John Ashbery ~
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
~By Richard Lugar ~
I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
~By Laurel Clark ~
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
~By Anita Hill ~
Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
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