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Experience Quotes
"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."
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"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."
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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."
184
"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."
175
"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
171
"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
167
"When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions."
165
"I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun."
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"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
160
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
158
"Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
157
"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere."
147
"We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs."
147
"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
132
"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
128
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
127
"I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance."
124
"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
123
"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."
123
"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality."
122
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
109
"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
102
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
93
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
93
"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
86
"In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory, the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
84
"I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now."
78
"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience."
73
"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things."
72
"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months."
70
"...people don't take trips-trips take people."
67
"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."
67
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
66
"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."
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"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
65
"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
64
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
64
"So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther."
63
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'"
63
"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
60
"I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!"
59
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
59
"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States."
58
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
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"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."
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