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Experience Quotes
"During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus."
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"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
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"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."
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"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
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"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."
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"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
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"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
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"I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!"
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"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
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"Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take."
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"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
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"I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life."
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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
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"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
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"While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
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"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."
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"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."
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"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
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"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."
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"You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is."
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"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book."
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"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
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"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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"This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had."
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
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"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."
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"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."
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"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
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