Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.