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Experience Quotes


"While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference."



"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."



"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."


"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."


"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."


"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."


"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."


"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."


"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."


"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book."



"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."



"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."


"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."


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



"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."


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


"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."


"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."


"It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime."


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."



"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."



"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."


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


"Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available."


"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having."


"There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream."



"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."



"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
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