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Experience Quotes


"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."


"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."


"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."


"'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!"


"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."


"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."


"You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is."


"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is."


"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."


"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."


"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."


"Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed."


"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."


"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."


"With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting."


"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."


"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."


"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."


"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"


"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."


"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."


"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."


"Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world."


"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."


"I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience."


"I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world."


"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."


"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."


"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."


"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."


"Experience is more important than knowledge."


"I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up."


"And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience."


"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"


"If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands."


"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."


"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."


"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."


"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."


"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."


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


"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."


"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."


"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."


"It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual."
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