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Experience Quotes
"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."
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"Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth."
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"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."
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"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
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"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
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"You see, meditation is not a fabricated state. It is natural. It is accessible to all. And in the same way that a person who learns how to run, can run any time they want to, or, a person who knows how to play an instrument can play music at will, once you learn how to meditate, you can create your moments of peace at will."
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"I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that."
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"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."
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"I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis."
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"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
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"It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand."
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"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
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"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."
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"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."
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"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
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"The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed."
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"Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."
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"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."
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"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
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"By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to."
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"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."
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"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
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"People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience."
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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."
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"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."
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"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.'"
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"The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations."
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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
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"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
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"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
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"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
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"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."
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"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent."
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"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience."
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"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
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"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best."
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"When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast."
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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
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"This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously."
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"I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters."
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"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."
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"It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back."
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