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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Daisaku Ikeda on experience

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
Daisaku Ikeda on experience

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor on experience

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom on experience

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
Edward Norton on experience

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
Edward Norton on experience

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
Bryan Cranston on experience

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
Bryan Cranston on experience

All experience is subjective.
Gregory Bateson on experience

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 on experience

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

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
Greg Anderson on experience

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana on experience

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
Stanley Baldwin on experience

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus on experience

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
Jack Nicklaus on experience

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
Christopher Meloni on experience

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
Fiona Apple on experience

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow on experience

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow on experience