And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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.

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.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

The Red Wedding was, for myself as a director doing this, such a mammoth experience.

In terms of wedding gifts, I like to buy people experiences.

The Red Wedding was an amazing experience I'll never forget. We rehearsed it like a play over one whole day, and then shot it over five days.

In my experience, working with a bride-to-be, the last couple of weeks leading up to the wedding is uber-stressful.

Any experience of a girl picking out her wedding dress is amazing, but I have to say it was really special to work with David's dad, to see him in action with his team.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.