Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
John Drinkwater

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
Harrison Ford

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
Henri Poincare

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
Walter Salles

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Paul Wellstone

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Gustav Mahler

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
Paul Wellstone

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
William H. Macy

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
Christopher Meloni

It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.
Christopher Meloni

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
Brenda Blethyn

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
Graham Nash

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Christopher Lasch

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
George Henry Lewes

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Oliver North

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Stanislav Grof

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
James Stockdale

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
Stanislav Grof

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Theodore Bikel