experience
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘experience’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.” -Arthur Miller
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“Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.” -Jon Meacham
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“If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.” -Lena Dunham
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“Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.” -Shelley Winters
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“In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” -Harold MacMillan
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“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can’t recreate.” -Daniel Craig
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“The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.” -Peter Singer
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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“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.” -Rashida Jones
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“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.” -E. W. Howe
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“All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.” -Chauncey Wright
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“Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.” -Robert Lanza
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“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.” -Kinky Friedman
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“You don’t cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.” -Andre Agassi
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“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.” -Arthur Erickson
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“So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that…
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“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.” -Lewis Mumford
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“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.” -Martha Plimpton
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“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there’s no question women are paid less. Women don’t ask.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.” -Maurice Sendak
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“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.” -Ralph Fiennes
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“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.”…
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“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.” -Tony Campolo
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“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Earl Wilson
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“I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things.” -Marc Andreessen
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“An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.” -Sholem Asch
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“Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.” -Herbert Read
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“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.” -David Ogden Stiers
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“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.” -Curt Schilling
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“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.” -Aneurin Bevan
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“And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.” -Jason Statham
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“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” -James Beard
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“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones?” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.” -David Ogilvy
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“I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don’t know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can’t think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I’m sure they’re there, but I’d have to think really hard to recall them.” -Scott Baio
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“When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.” -Leslie Fiedler
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“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“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.” -Bell Hooks
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“I’ve been looking to do TV for a while. I’ve always done guest starring stuff. I’ve done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I’ve always loved the experience.” -Christina Ricci
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“More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“I hate it when people don’t recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men’s work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – men’s writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.” -Ani DiFranco
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“One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it’s really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they’re all trying to murder…
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“A woman’s experience is different from a man’s in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.” -Carly Fiorina
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“I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see…
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“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.” -David Cameron
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“I’m not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing ‘All the Way,’ I was really thinking about my wife. People don’t know my personal experience, but they can tell it’s an honest interpretation.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.” -Samuel Dash
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“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” -Thomas Wolfe
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“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.” -Eliza Farnham
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“I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.” -Kiefer Sutherland
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“There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life’s rich experience.” -David Duchovny
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“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.” -Federico Fellini
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“I’ve had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they’re in charge of their own career somehow or other.” -Alan Rickman
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“I’ve always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you’re the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you’re the fastest. So no one can say you’re slow if you’re fast and no one can say you’re fast if you’re slow.” -Eric…
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“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.” -Roger Clemens
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“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.” -Simon Bolivar
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“My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“It’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.” -Louis C. K.
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“When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ‘multipersonhood,’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense…
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“As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.” -Edward Witten
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“Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.” -Ezra Taft Benson
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“No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.” -Calvin Klein
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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” -Muriel Rukeyser
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“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.” -Thor Heyerdahl
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“Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.” -Edward…
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“There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.” -Bram Stoker
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“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can’t ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.” -Thabo Mbeki
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“I think any spiritual experience that’s worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, ‘If you’re not laughing, then you’re not getting it.’” -David O. Russell
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“The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.” -Martha Beck
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“The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.” -Francesca Annis
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“Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it.” -Harry Browne
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“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.” -Julia Roberts
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“I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.” -Keanu Reeves
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“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.” -Roger Bacon
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“Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.” -Samuel Alexander
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I don’t think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I’m grateful for being able to have that experience.” -Brian Harvey
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“Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it.” -Susan Orlean
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“Sometimes I get so bold and I’m so confident about what I’m doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it’s a really liberating feeling to experience what it’s like to not care.” -John Mayer
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“I’m not a romantic. In life I didn’t have much experience with romance.” -Ang Lee
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“So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.” -Henry Louis Gates
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“I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.” -Janice Dickinson
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“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you’re interaction with them was positive?” -Simon Mainwaring
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“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.” -Natalie Portman
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“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.” -Christopher Lasch
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“If someone is making a judgment when they don’t have firsthand experience, it’s intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don’t know about?” -Beck
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“I’ve learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.” -Dana Plato
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“In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don’t want those things in my life.” -Chrissie Hynde
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“I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.” -Maria Sharapova
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“It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.” -William Morris
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“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don’t think I’d have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church’s choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so…
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“As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.” -Ann Coulter
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“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“If we didn’t want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.”…
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“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.” -John Baldacci
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“I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I’ll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.” -Dennis Franz
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“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It’s part of racing.” -Frank Shorter
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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” -John Heywood
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“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.” -W. H. Auden
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“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” -Harriet Tubman
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“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“It’s my experience that you really can’t lose when you try the truth.” -Sharon Stone
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“I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.” -Cameron Diaz
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“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.” -William E. Gladstone
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“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.” -Hannah Arendt
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“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!” -Dan Quayle
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“In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn’t enable you to do that. It wasn’t my style.” -Cat Stevens
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“Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long-form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’” -Martin Scorsese
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“The amount of meetings I’ve been in – people would be shocked. But that’s how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.” -Tiger Woods
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“Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.” -Paul Walker
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“Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.” -Brian Eno
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“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.” -Sacha Guitry
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“We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.” -Marco Rubio
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“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a…
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“We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.” -Emil Zatopek
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“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.” -Jimmy Carter
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“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.” -Mia Hamm
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“There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” -Edward Abbey
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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.” -Navjot Singh Sidhu
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“Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.” -Ben Affleck
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“I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” -Debbi Fields
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“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.” -Elie Wiesel
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“I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.” -Jeff Bridges
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“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.” -Edith Wharton
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“Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who’ve got an incredible talent was just a great experience.” -Tom Felton
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“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” -Masaru Ibuka
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“It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.” -Robertson Davies
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“Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too busy helping other parents to really care.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” -John Stuart Mill
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“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.” -John Dewey
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“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.” -Franz Kafka
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“But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.” -Emma Watson
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“My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.” -Aeschylus
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“I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.” -Willie Nelson
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“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.” -Lady Gaga
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“I’m not one aspect of the human experience – none of us is.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.” -William Feather
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“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.” -Bill Watterson
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“If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.” -Alanis Morissette
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“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.” -William Kingdon Clifford
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“This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.” -Bill Maher
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“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.” -Eric Clapton
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“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” -Doug Larson
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“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” -Andrew Cohen
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“You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.” -Regina King
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“I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don’t think that was love. I think as I’m getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I’ll experience it. At the moment, I don’t know, exactly, if I’ve been in love.” -Selena Gomez
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“Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.” -Keith Richards
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“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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