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Experience Quotes


"I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway."


"The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off."


"I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon realized it was a tremendous stroke of luck to end up there. We could have had a fair-seized railroad flat in the East Village for what we were paying, but to dwell in this eccentric and damned hotel provided a sense of security as well as a stellar education. The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children."


"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."



"But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience."


"When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff."



"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right."


"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal."



"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."



"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom."


"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."


"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."


"The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me."


"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."


"The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further."


"I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long."


"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."



"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."


"I let new experiences enliven my being and awaken new, amazing parts of my being. I experience life with joy and receive its bliss."


"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."


"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."


"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"


"I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better."


"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."


"By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to."


"This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove."


"I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them."


"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."



"I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience."


"Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written."


"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."


"With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks."


"When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'"


"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."


"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."


"Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience."


"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."


"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."


"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."



"I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience."



"As between mileage and experience choose experience."



"With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch."



"My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding."


"The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience."


"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."


"All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me."



"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."


"I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been."


"I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes."


"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing."
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