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Experience Quotes


"When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play."


"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride."


"Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters."


"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience."


"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."


"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves."



"Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment."


"Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."


"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."


"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."


"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."


"Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience."


"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."


"Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience."


"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."


"I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience."


"I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that."


"No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book."


"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."


"That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon."


"I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor."


"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."


"If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects."


"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."


"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."


"The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good."


"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."


"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."


"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."


"The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America."


"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."


"It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness."


"I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too."


"Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything."


"Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time."


"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."


"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."


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


"At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience."


"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."


"She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience."


"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."


"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."


"If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience."


"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
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