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Experience Quotes
"Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger."
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"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head."
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"Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."
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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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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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"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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"So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther."
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"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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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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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
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"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."
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"In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory, the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
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"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."
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"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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"In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make."
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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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"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
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"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
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"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
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"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war."
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"What people want is a seamless Web experience."
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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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"I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked."
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"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."
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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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"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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"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
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"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
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"Experience is more important than knowledge."
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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
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"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."
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"I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work."
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"It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood."
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"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
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"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."
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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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"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."
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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
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"Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good."
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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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