Category

Experience

Anyone who teaches knows that you dont really experience a text until youve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. – Joyce Carol Oates

Men do weird things when they experience fear. Its like a fight-or-flight thing. – Rashida Jones

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayors Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done. – Rashida Jones

You dont cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. – Andre Agassi

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. – Sandra Day OConnor

So Ive seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody elses airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasnt in – 21 years ago, then Id think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that Id like to fly on. – Richard Branson

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years experience can accomplish a lot, but it cant access the hidden places. – Jeanette Winterson

Being a biological mother just isnt part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm. – Kim Cattrall

Theres a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater… Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell. – Kim Cattrall

I cant control what people think. Im not trying to manipulate peoples thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. Its machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. – Mos Def

Everybodys entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people. – Amy Grant

With Good Will Hunting, Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasnt expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. – Gus Van Sant

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you cant recreate. – Daniel Craig

And were seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are. – Neale Donald Walsch

If were picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a new Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. – Antonin Scalia

You know, young actors say all the time, Should I use my own life experience? And my response is, What choice do you have? – David Mamet

Find whats hot, find whats just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself. – Gordon Ramsay

If youve got a piece and you can feel the person whos going to direct it is really made for it, if its really special for them, then its going to be a better-than-usual experience. – Edward Norton

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, its at the extreme end of their experience. – Dean Koontz

Music is subjective to everyones unique experience. – Jared Leto