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Experience Quotes
"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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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own 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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"Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known."
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"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right."
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"If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm."
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"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
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"I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long."
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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
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"I let new experiences enliven my being and awaken new, amazing parts of my being. I experience life with joy and receive its bliss."
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"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."
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"Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone, each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together."
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"I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help."
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"Life produces a different taste each time you take it."
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"The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound."
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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 French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience."
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"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."
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"A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience."
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"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
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"And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me."
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"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."
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"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."
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"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
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"Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it."
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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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"Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience."
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"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."
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"But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment."
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"I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience."
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"It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break."
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"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."
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"If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own."
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"In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience."
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"My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse."
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"See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality."
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"The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst."
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"People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records."
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"The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience."
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"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."
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"Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old."
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"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
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"In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc."
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"At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me."
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"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
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"In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator."
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