Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Film can be a transformative experience, both for those who make it and those who watch it.

For me, filmmaking is about creating an emotional experience.

Each film I make is a reflection of my experiences and perspectives.

Living with intention and mindfulness can transform our everyday experiences into something extraordinary.

Translation is a very profound human experience.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life… It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

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

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith

Experience tells me that people’s hearts are seldom changed if they are not changed when young. Seldom indeed are men converted when they are old. Habits have deep roots. Once sin is allowed to settle in your heart, it will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

I thought about New York but in New York the studio would get crowded with a lot of people. In LA, you look outside its like palm trees, sunshine and you know a totally different feel working.

Acting is not just a job; it’s a privilege—a chance to share the human experience in all its shades

If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

When some one ever asks me about the most expensive thing in this world, I always feel that maintaining as well as keeping up your appearance is actually and originally the most expensive thing that you can ever find in this entire world

Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It’s really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, – the most terrible fear a man can experience, – I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Music – like narrative, like the experience of our lives as we live them – unfolds in time.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

Fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce a more vexingly verbose female.

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

It was a great experience to play against him and I hope I will get another opportunity. I am not sure I played very well today as I had problems with my serve and missed a lot of shots when he was slicing to my backhand. But I played better than in the last two finals I lost. I enjoyed myself more.

This is my fourth final and I just hope to enjoy myself and play my game. Previously I haven’t been able to do that in finals. It’s great to meet the No.1 player in the world, it will be a good experience for me.

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it’s very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

Shamefully, Mexico isn’t a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that’s the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don’t have a family then there’s no excuse. Try, at least.

Most people experience some insecurity regarding one or more of their physical traits.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

It’s not good just to have life experience of film-making and that’s all. It’s hard to play a real person when you’ve been in jets and town cars for three years.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience – I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It’s definitely something that’s helped me with my game.

For a player it’s an amazing experience to be at Real Madrid. I matured a lot there, principally as a person.

To take on Madrid is a very good experience.

When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don’t feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.

We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, ‘Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I’m so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Baseball has experienced and ingested an entire arrangement of disengagements.

I never fit in anywhere growing up, and that made me realize I was destined to create my own path.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.

The only thing better than “hands-on” experience is hands-off experience – enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience

In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that’s totally alien to it.

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to experience the world through the eyes of others

The writer’s job is to create an experience for the reader that is as close as possible to the experience he had when he wrote the book

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror – indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

I am a student of life, and don’t want to miss any experience. There’s poetry in this sort of thing, you know–or perhaps you don’t know, but it’s all the same.

The logic of the poet – that is, the logic of language or the experience itself – develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

Love is based on a view of women that is impossible to those who have had any experience with them.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful

My experience with liberals, they have attitudes, and they have all the proper attitudes. But they have no real convictions, and when the chips are down and you expect them to deliver and what you thought they felt they somehow are not there.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

I think I’m drawn to more villain-type characters, because it’s so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.

The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and such characteristics; but if he had such characteristics, He could not allow etc…His judgment of incompability, in fact, is based on a judgment of implications.

Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us

Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rule

I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we’d vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.