934 private quotes tagged experience

“You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.”— Diablo Cody

“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.”— Jaron Lanier

“When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.”— Eddie Van Halen

“'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.”— Donny Osmond

“Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.”— Francesca Annis

“Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.”— Robert Lanza

“I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.”— Diane Kruger

“Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.”— Carre Otis

“When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.”— Allen Klein

“If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.”— Jaron Lanier

“Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.”— Christian Slater

“When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.”— Mayer Hawthorne

“We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.”— Helmut Jahn

“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.”— Jean Houston

“As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.”— Jeffrey Kluger

“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.”— Mia Hamm

“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.”— Robertson Davies

“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”— Jon Bon Jovi

“It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.”— Vaclav Havel

“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”— Joyce Maynard

“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”— Clarence Day

“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.”— Bernard Baruch

“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”— Zoe Saldana

“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”— Diane Keaton

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.”— Steve Martin