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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“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.” -Jonathan Swift
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“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” -Charlie Parker
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“If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.” -Bo Bennett
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“I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn’t see the signs in myself. I couldn’t ask for help because I didn’t know I needed help.” -Clara Hughes
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“I write out of my intellectual experience.” -Tom Stoppard
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“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” -David Bowie
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“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.” -Doug Coupland
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“Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.” -Newt Gingrich
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.” -Immanuel Kant
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.” -Henry James
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“There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.” -Joyce Meyer
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“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.” -Alan Moore
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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” -Les Brown
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“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I’ve never played with a band. I’ve always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.” -Steve Martin
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“All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.” -Bodhidharma
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“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand
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“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” -Billy Joel
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“It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.” -Christy Turlington
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“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.” -David Hockney
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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.” -J. K. Rowling
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“At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.” -Princess Masako
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“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.” -Abigail Adams
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“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.” -Prem Rawat
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“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.” -Harry Callahan
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“I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.” -Jim Garrison
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“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.” -Alice Walker
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.” -Ansel Adams
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“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.” -George Santayana
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“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.” -E. M. Forster
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“Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember.” -Oscar Levant
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“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.” -Alfred Adler
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, ‘I have been through worse.’” -Delta Goodrem
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“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.” -Thomas Huxley
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“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” -Bob Geldof
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“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.” -Twyla Tharp
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“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.” -Annie Besant
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“Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” -Jim Horning
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“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.” -James Russell Lowell
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“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.” -Horace
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“Any experience can be transformed into something of value.” -Vash Young
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“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” -Al Gore
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“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.” -Charles Stanley
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“I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.” -Fred Perry
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“Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
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“I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.” -Elisabeth Shue
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“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.” -Brian Tracy
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“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.” -Deepak Chopra
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“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.” -Francis Bacon
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“The reward of suffering is experience.” -Harry S. Truman
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“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” -John Locke
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“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.” -Marianne Williamson
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“I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.” -Jim Carrey
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“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” -Lou Holtz
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“Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” -Ram Dass
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“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.” -Milton Friedman
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“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.” -Jean Houston
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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.” -Richard Dawkins
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“The greatest gift is the 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.” -Moses Hadas
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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” -M. Scott Peck
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“It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.” -Woody Allen
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“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” -Mao Zedong
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“I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” -Martha Washington
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“I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.” -Danica Patrick
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“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.” -Donald Norman
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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” -William Blake
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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” -J. Paul Getty
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“A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.” -George Mason
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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.” -George Eliot
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“I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.” -Diane Arbus
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“Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.” -Denis Waitley
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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.” -Carl Jung
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“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.” -Ben Stein
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“In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.” -Chinua Achebe
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“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” -Vernon Law
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“Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.” -Blaise Pascal
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” -Aldous Huxley
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“‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.” -William James
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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” -Emily Dickinson
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“I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.” -Laurel Clark
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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.” -Karl Marx
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“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn’t have that experience.” -Hillary Clinton
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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.” -Stephen Fry
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“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.” -Carl Rogers
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“Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.” -Milton Berle
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“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.” -Colin Powell
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“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.” -Saint Augustine
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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.” -Jodie Foster
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“It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty.” -Johnny Depp
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” -Jack Kingston
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“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.” -T. S. Eliot
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“I know it’s an experience that I need to have if God’s putting me through it.” -Lil Wayne
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.” -Harold S. Geneen
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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” -Alan Watts
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“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.” -Salvador Dali
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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” -Henry Ford
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“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” -Tony Robbins
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“I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it…
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“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” -Ayrton Senna
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“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -e. e. cummings
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“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?” -Voltaire
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“Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.” -W. C. Fields
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“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” -Aleister Crowley
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“One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.” -Bob Dylan
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” -John Milton
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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” -Taylor Swift
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“I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.” -John Wooden
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“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.” -Henry Miller
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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.” -Ray Bradbury
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“DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.” -Bill Gates
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“Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.” -Mitt Romney
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“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” -George Washington
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“I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.” -Joseph Campbell
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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.” -Patrick Henry
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“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” -Paul Cezanne
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“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.” -Jim Rohn
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“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” -Donald Trump
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.” -Confucius
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“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.” -Helen Keller
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“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.” -W. Clement Stone
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“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.” -Nelson Mandela
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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” -William Shakespeare
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“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” -Will Rogers
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum
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“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” -Khalil Gibran
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“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.” -William Ellery Channing
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“Color is an intense experience on its own.” -Jim Hodges
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“Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Walter Wriston
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“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” -Thomas Jefferson
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