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  • Roger Ascham on experience

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    “By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.” -Roger Ascham

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  • Julius Erving on experience

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    “One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.” -Julius Erving

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  • Lionel Blue on experience

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    “I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.” -Lionel Blue

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  • Rachael Ray on experience

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    “Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you’ll get it done!” -Rachael Ray

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  • Josh Radnor on experience

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    “Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn’t go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.” -Josh Radnor

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  • Niklas Zennstrom on experience

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    “You shouldn’t be afraid of failure – when something fails, you think, ‘What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.’ Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don’t get disappointed.” -Niklas Zennstrom

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  • Quintilian on experience

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    “In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.” -Quintilian

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  • Jane Campion on experience

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    “With ‘Bright Star’ and with ‘The Piano,’ too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I’d get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it’s contemporary, creates its own world.”

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  • Chester Bennington on experience

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    “When I’m writing, I’m constantly thinking about myself, because it’s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don’t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that’s why the fans are there.” -Chester Bennington

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  • Umberto Eco on experience

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    “There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.” -Umberto Eco

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  • Charles Schumer on experience

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    “There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.” -Charles Schumer

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  • Corey Feldman on experience

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    “It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.” -Corey Feldman

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  • Oliver Stone on experience

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    “I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.” -Oliver Stone

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  • Willie Stargell on experience

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    “I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.” -Willie Stargell

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  • Barbara Kingsolver on experience

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    “I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.” -Barbara Kingsolver

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  • Jacques Lacan on experience

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    “As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.” -Jacques Lacan

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  • Wayne Rooney on experience

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    “You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform

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  • Russell Crowe on experience

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    “While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore.” -Russell Crowe

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  • Raul Julia on experience

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    “It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.” -Raul Julia

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  • Jeremy Renner on experience

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    “The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.” -Jeremy Renner

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  • John Hodgman on experience

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    “People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.” -John Hodgman

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  • Eric Liu on experience

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    “Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.” -Eric Liu

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  • Alberto Moravia on experience

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    “In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.” -Alberto Moravia

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  • Anna Deavere Smith on experience

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    “Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.” -Anna Deavere Smith

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  • Arthur Smith on experience

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    “Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.” -Arthur Smith

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