Quotes about First Experience

Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 4

The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry. Votes: 4

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.' Votes: 4

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Votes: 4

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' Votes: 4

The finest poetry was first experience. Votes: 3

You have to first experience what you want to express Votes: 3

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness. Votes: 3

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 3

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more. Votes: 3

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion? Votes: 3

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. Votes: 3

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! Votes: 3

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. Votes: 3

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Votes: 3

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. Votes: 3

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. Votes: 3

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it. Votes: 3

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits. Votes: 3

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too. Votes: 3

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. Votes: 3

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. Votes: 3

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother. Votes: 3

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. Votes: 3

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer. Votes: 3

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people`s first experience with capitalism is as a debtor. Votes: 3

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly. Votes: 3

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way. Votes: 3

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle. Votes: 3

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him) Votes: 3

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so. Votes: 3

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. Votes: 3

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd. Votes: 3

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. Votes: 3

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast. Votes: 3

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. Votes: 3

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy. Votes: 3

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. Votes: 3

My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody. Votes: 3

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting. Votes: 3

My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife. Votes: 3

Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time -- the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods. Votes: 3

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done. Votes: 3

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.' Votes: 3

I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch. Votes: 3

I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break. Votes: 3

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad. Votes: 3

When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week. Votes: 3

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. Votes: 2

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Votes: 2

The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression. Votes: 2

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority. Votes: 2

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs. Votes: 2

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. Votes: 2

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. Votes: 2

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience. Votes: 2

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience. Votes: 2

I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences. Votes: 2

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through. Votes: 2

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Votes: 2

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. Votes: 2

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that. Votes: 2

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats. Votes: 2

Experience first, then intellectualize. Votes: 0

My own personal experience has become more first-hand. Votes: 0

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience. Votes: 0

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention. Votes: 0

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later. Votes: 0

You have first to experience what you want to express. Votes: 0

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today. Votes: 0

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God? Votes: 0

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. Votes: 0

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. Votes: 0

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. Votes: 0

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled. Votes: 0

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's. Votes: 0

The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression. Votes: 0

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience. Votes: 0

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Votes: 0

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind. Votes: 0

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway. Votes: 0

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Votes: 0

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty. Votes: 0

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. Votes: 0

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand. Votes: 0

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later. Votes: 0

Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience. Votes: 0

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal. Votes: 0

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. Votes: 0

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. Votes: 0

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others. Votes: 0

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. Votes: 0

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. Votes: 0

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. Votes: 0

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones. Votes: 0

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. Votes: 0

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. Votes: 0

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Votes: 0

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. Votes: 0

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first Votes: 0

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason. Votes: 0

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Votes: 0

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true. Votes: 0

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Votes: 0

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. Votes: 0

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. Votes: 0

You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area. Votes: 0

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films. Votes: 0

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. Votes: 0

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. Votes: 0

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike. Votes: 0

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction. Votes: 0

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual. Votes: 0

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience. Votes: 0

When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. Votes: 0

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. Votes: 0

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. Votes: 0

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky. Votes: 0

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. Votes: 0

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: "˜No. 1 in AMERICA'. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. Votes: 0

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections. Votes: 0

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... Votes: 0

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!' Votes: 0

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first. Votes: 0

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first. Votes: 0

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart. Votes: 0

The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey. Votes: 0

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first. Votes: 0

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary. Votes: 0

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience. Votes: 0

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice. Votes: 0

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later. Votes: 0

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. Votes: 0

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. Votes: 0

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort. Votes: 0

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Votes: 0

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible. Votes: 0

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience." Votes: 0

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes. Votes: 0

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. Votes: 0

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next. Votes: 0

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads. Votes: 0

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. Votes: 0

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot. Votes: 0

The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience. Votes: 0

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store. Votes: 0

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect. Votes: 0

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness. Votes: 0

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be. Votes: 0

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. Votes: 0

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. Votes: 0

The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change. Votes: 0

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event. Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have. Votes: 0

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief. Votes: 0

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time. Votes: 0

The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration. Votes: 0

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. Votes: 0

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds. Votes: 0

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right. Votes: 0