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Experience Quotes


"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."


"In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened."


"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."


"I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis."


"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."


"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."


"I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love."


"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."


"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."


"I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis."


"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration."


"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."


"It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing."


"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."


"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."


"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."


"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."


"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."


"It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget."


"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."


"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me."


"Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here."


"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."


"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."


"If you live long enough, you'll experience everything."



"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."


"Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development."


"We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now."


"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."


"Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer."


"Wise is the one who learns from another's mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them."


"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."


"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement."


"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."


"The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life."


"There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream."


"I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach."


"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."


"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience."


"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."


"The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game."


"We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows."


"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer."


"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."


"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."


"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."


"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."


"Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people."
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