#experience

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#around #challenge #compelling #each #emotionally

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#experience

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them. ↗

— Marc Singer

#backing #difficult #director #documentaries #experience

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#actual life #books #experience #gained #gathered

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#fulfilling #home #however #intended #never

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#after #committee #common #difficult #experience

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#byron #experience #getting #i #later