934 private quotes tagged experience

“Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.”— James Taylor

“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.”— Allen Ginsberg

“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.”— Arnold Bennett

“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.”— Ken Blanchard

“No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.”— Harlan Coben

“You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”— Danny Boyle

“I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.”— Charlie Kaufman

“But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.”— Evan Davis

“I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.”— Danny Boyle

“I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.”— Sophia Bush

“I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.”— Robert Duvall

“I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.”— John Polkinghorne

“Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.”— John Polkinghorne

“Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.”— Zac Efron

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”— Angela Carter

“I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.”— Haile Gebrselassie

“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”— Danny Boyle

“I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.”— Ziggy Marley

“It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'”— Neale Donald Walsch

“Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.”— Jack Nicklaus

“A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.”— Edward Norton

“A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!”— Greg Anderson

“I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.”— Edward Norton

“If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.”— George Saunders