There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. ~By Arnold Bennett ~
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. ~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special. ~By Albert Finney ~
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones. ~By Jensen Ackles ~
I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them. ~By Treat Williams ~
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. ~By John Abizaid ~
Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience. ~By Ed Bradley ~
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ~By Jim Costa ~
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 ~
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ~By Milton Friedman ~
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make. ~By Nick Stahl ~
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. ~By Dee Hock ~
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ~By John Stuart Mill ~
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. ~By Elliott Smith ~
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. ~By Phil Harris ~
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ~By Flannery O'Connor ~
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part. ~By Francesca Annis ~
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. ~By William E. Gladstone ~
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. ~By Tommy Shaw ~
I wanted to go out and experience the fields. ~By Rhona Mitra ~
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ~By Noam Chomsky ~
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble. ~By Jason Statham ~
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ~By Henri Poincare ~
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get. ~By Nia Long ~
I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. ~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ~By Ulrich Beck ~
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it. ~By Harry Browne ~
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. ~By Peter Hammill ~
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. ~By Jim McDermott ~
The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby. ~By Vin Diesel ~
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. ~By Martin Ryle ~
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions. ~By David Neeleman ~
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~By Rita Rudner ~
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time. ~By Lukas Foss ~
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. ~By Vincent Canby ~
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. ~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ~By Bell Hooks ~
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ~By Gregory Bateson ~
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole. ~By Charles Hodge ~
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ~By Rollo May ~
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ~By Johan Huizinga ~
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 ~
People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. ~By Beverly Cleary ~
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. ~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
God is only a great imaginative experience. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time. ~By Noah Hathaway ~
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. ~By Dan Brown ~
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. ~By Jane Badler ~
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. ~By Lindsay Wagner ~
It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else. ~By Blake Edwards ~
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. ~By Terry Josephson ~
Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further. ~By Joan Chen ~
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. ~By Larry Harvey ~
Purchased experiences don't count. ~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ~By Bob Barker ~
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ~By Donald Kagan ~
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. ~By Michael Shermer ~
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. ~By Mark Rylance ~
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. ~By Bill Gates ~
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. ~By Gustav Mahler ~
I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience. ~By Lorrie Fair ~
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. ~By Van Morrison ~
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience. ~By Matthew Bourne ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ~By Bruce Beresford ~
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ~By Corey Feldman ~
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~By Pete Seeger ~
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road. ~By Tatyana Ali ~
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of. ~By Will Estes ~
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. ~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having. ~By Denis Johnson ~
And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ~By Robert Creeley ~
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. ~By Roland Allen ~
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea. ~By Deborah Bull ~
When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard. ~By Jude Law ~
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience. ~By Robert Caro ~
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated. ~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night. ~By Henry Reed ~
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service. ~By Susan Collins ~
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing. ~By Virgil Thomson ~
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble. ~By Henry Kravis ~
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. ~By John Keats ~
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ~By Jack Nicklaus ~
It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. ~By Mike Thompson ~
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. ~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. ~By Carl Jung ~
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. ~By Robert Byrd ~
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. ~By Roger McGuinn ~
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. ~By Edvard Munch ~
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. ~By Jasper Johns ~
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. ~By Zoe Saldana ~
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