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Experience Quotes


"Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience."


"We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth."


"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."


"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."


"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."



"No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted."



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


"The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry."


"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"


"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."


"But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over."


"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."


"Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience."


"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."


"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."


"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."


"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."


"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."



"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom."


"The game seemed to be speeding up, building on itself. Right around the deaths of Tess and Selena, I'd met the Sun.Were we spinning to an end?"



"My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience."


"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."


"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."


"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."


"Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience."


"Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience."



"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."


"This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer."


"Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them."


"I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies."


"The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!"


"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience."



"A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something."


"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"



"Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future."


"Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts."


"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays."


"With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives."


"Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience."


"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."


"I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis."



"But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know."


"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."


"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."


"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes."


"It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand."


"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do."


"If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)"
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