I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
I’ve had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They’ll tell you when they’re grumpy. They’ll tell you when they’re okay.
I’m definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I’m very thankful for the opportunities that I’ve been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don’t let it consume me.
When designing – whether it’s a living room, event space, or tablescape – I always want guests to feel as though they are part of the experience.
In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are – as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.
Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
You can write a thousand lists and make a million vision boards, but if you don’t clearly feel what you want to experience, it will never truly manifest into form.
Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They’re smart, funny, creative people, but they’re people.
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it.
I’m extremely proud to be part of the ‘Fast’ franchise, it is an experience I will always treasure.
How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I’m my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience destroyed my enthusiasm for film.
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
Ultimately, you’re looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
I’m a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that’s good about video games is they can direct their own experience.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Playing the priest on ‘Oz’ was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
