KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Experience


Share this page on

Showing 2361-2370 of 2386 quotes in the topic Experience

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Book Care Character Dies Events Experience Feel Fictional Friend Get Go Grieve Just Lived Make More Popcorn Readers Should Somebody Superficial Try You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

~George Sand

Topics: Difficult Difficult Thing Effort Experience Genius Last Limit Most Most Difficult Thing Secure Simplicity Thing World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

~George Santayana

Topics: Children Endow Experience Immortality Lend Memory Parents

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

~George Santayana

Topics: Bursts Experience Like Meanings Shell Thousand Word

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

~George Santayana

Topics: Difficulty Education Experience Get Great Ideas Out

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

~George Santayana

Topics: Conclusions Draw Experience Lead Most Never Seems Sworn Them Us

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Articles Change Conception Consumption Currency Daily Experience Fraud Like Small Symbol

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

~George Saunders

Topics: Been Bonus Character Clients Convey Deciding Experience Guide Illusion Least Like Make Message More Often Order Our Paid Possible Purposely Something Steer Water You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

~George Saunders

Topics: Experience Lack Read Voice You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~George Strait

Topics: Another Country Entertainment Entertainment Industry Experience Great Great Learning Experience Industry Learning Learning Experience Loved Making Me Part Pure Seeing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Joseph Campbell Tyler, The Creator George S. Patton Jean Piaget Terry Pratchett Bertrand Russell Nikola Tesla Kanye West

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Famous Food Legal Memorial Day Romantic Society Technology