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Experience Quotes


"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."


"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."


"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."



"I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up."



"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."


"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."


"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."


"You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie."


"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."



"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."


"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."



"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."


"Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary."


"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."


"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion."


"Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions."


"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."



"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."


"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone."


"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."


"I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft."


"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."


"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."


"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds."


"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."



"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes."


"I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up."


"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."


"Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career."


"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."


"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."


"I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit."


"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."


"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."



"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."


"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."


"Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years."


"My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding."


"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."


"Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."



"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."



"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."


"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."


"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."


"I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking."


"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."


"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."


"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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