Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot but it can't access the hidden places.

Not what we experience but how we perceive what we experience determines our fate.

I think in most jobs you get better as you get older. You gain experience you gain knowledge.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular never-to-be-repeated experience.

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.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience nor film.

Each of us brings to our job whatever it is our lifetime of experience and our values.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience whatever it is.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have the worse you get.

Our thoughts have an order not of themselves but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

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.

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.

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.

If your faith is opposed to experience to human learning and investigation it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

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.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it in loving detail with an intelligent and responsive class.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

When I was young I was just about hard work. But as I got older I did experience anxiety doubt judgment and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Food is our common ground a universal experience.

And it was a great experience you know to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline focus and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

It is an axiom enforced by all the experience of the ages that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

The things I was allowed to experience the people I was able to call friends teammates mentors coaches and opponents the travel all of it are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.