The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a g...
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
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...
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
Experience by itself is not science.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit f...
