The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
