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Experience Quotes


"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."


"I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying."



"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


"Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience."


"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."


"I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth."



"The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience."


"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us."



"I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now."


"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting."


"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."



"At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it."


"And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too."


"I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics."


"Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability."


"Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us."


"My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop."


"It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is."


"I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future."



"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."



"Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years."


"I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience."


"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."


"But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies."


"To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience."



"I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended."


"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."


"I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera."


"I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force."


"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."



"The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self."


"I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it."



"I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career."



"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."



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



"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."


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


"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."



"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."


"A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next."



"Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce."


"I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination."


"I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad."


"Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life."


"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."


"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."



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


"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."


"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
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