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Experience Quotes


"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."


"I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience."


"The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli."


"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."


"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."


"You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience."


"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."


"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."


"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."


"The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know."


"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."


"I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying."


"Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this."


"People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience."


"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."


"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."


"If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it."


"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."


"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."


"As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore."


"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.'"


"As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole."


"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."


"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us."


"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."


"At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it."


"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."


"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."


"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."


"Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to."


"And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too."


"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."


"I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics."


"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."


"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that."


"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 am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."


"I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction."


"The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed."


"All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me."


"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."


"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."


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


"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."


"From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now."


"Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him."


"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."


"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."


"I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own."
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