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Experience Quotes


"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."


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


"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."


"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."



"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."



"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."


"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."


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


"Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible."


"At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience."


"I miss a good cup of tea, dancing, boys- definitely not rain.""We dance," Diana protested.Maeve had just laughed. "You dance differently when you know you won't live forever."


"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."



"If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience."


"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."


"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?"


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



"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."


"I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life."



"We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows."


"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."


"Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country."


"However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience."


"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."


"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."



"Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'"


"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."



"Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings."



"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."



"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 whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."



"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."


"I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience."


"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."


"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."


"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."


"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."


"I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience."


"It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on."


"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."



"Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment."


"Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence."


"If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?"


"Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class."


"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."


"I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman."


"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."



"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
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