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Experience Quotes


"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."


"So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience."


"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me."


"There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that."


"Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."


"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."


"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."


"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."



"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans."


"It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history."


"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."


"Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision."


"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."


"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."


"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."



"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."



"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."


"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."


"But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer."


"That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon."


"Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different."


"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience."


"She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special."


"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."



"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."


"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."



"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."


"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."


"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."


"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time."


"Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career."


"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."


"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."


"It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness."



"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."


"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."


"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head."


"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."


"I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to."


"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."


"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."


"It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence."



"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."


"I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions."


"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."



"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
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