Experience Driven Quotes

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

I'll decide to do a movie and then go oh, like "Twilight" fans are probably going to react to this or whatever. But that's always an afterthought. Like I don't plan things out based on other people's opinions of how like I think they're going to receive them. I do it like for the experience.

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.