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Experience Quotes
"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
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"One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult."
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"Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools."
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"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."
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"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."
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"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."
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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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"We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened."
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"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."
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"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
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"I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience."
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
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"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
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"I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office."
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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
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"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction."
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"Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden."
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"The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good."
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"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US."
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"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"
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"Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel."
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"What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement."
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"I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience."
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"It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time."
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"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."
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"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"
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"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
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"The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes."
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"The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons."
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"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."
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"We said, OK. We'll - as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it's a very unique experience."
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"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
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"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."
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"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
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"If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery, he informed, his tone steady and cold. 'Is that explicit enough?'Oh, don't be so dramatic, I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass."
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"Your retirement does not mean you are tired but you have learned more or acquired more experience."
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"See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality."
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"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."
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"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff."
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"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."
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"The best substitute for experience is being sixteen."
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"The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience."
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"Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!"
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."
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"Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience."
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"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."
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"England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America."
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