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Experience Quotes


"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."


"I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor."


"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."


"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."


"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."


"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."


"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."


"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."


"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."


"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."



"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."


"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"


"And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience."


"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."



"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."


"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."


"I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many."


"I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare."


"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."


"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of 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."


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



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


"If "Been there, done that isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list."


"I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me."


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


"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"


"I like doing movies that relate to people's experience."


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



"Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience."


"I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across."


"Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience."


"Science is the systematic classification of experience."


"In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth."



"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."



"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."



"Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority."


"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in."


"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."


"To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses."


"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."


"My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid."


"Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians."


"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."


"The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience."


"All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience."



"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 second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years."



"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
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