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" So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. "

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" Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic. "

" We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel. "

" The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers. "

Gianluigi Buffon

" Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. "

" When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche. "

" We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. "

" Doing a mall is not only construction of the physical place: what is important is the merchandising mix. We strive to serve the convenience of the public. We want shopping at our malls to be a unique and an enjoyable experience. "

" Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that. "

Wladimir Klitschko

" Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. "

" I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. "

" You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. "

" The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean. "

" My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience. "

" If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before. "

Richard P. Feynman

" I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there. "

" I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. "

" The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. "

" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "

" Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. "

Gerald Jampolsky

" Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. "

" I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. "

" But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. "

Charles de Secondat

" If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. "

" All adventure is now reactionary. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

" To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. "

" Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. "

" I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror. "

" I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about. "

America Ferrera