Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's 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.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
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.
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Being a biological mother just isn't 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.
There's 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.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
Everybody's 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.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't 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.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
And we're 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.
If we're 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.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
Find what's hot, find what's 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.
If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.
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, it's at the extreme end of their experience.