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Experience Quotes


"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."


"It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'"


"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."


"Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions."


"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."


"The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience."


"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too."


"I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better."


"We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration."


"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."


"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."


"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."


"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."


"I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth."


"I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."


"My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience."


"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."


"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."


"When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on."


"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."


"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."


"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."


"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."


"Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement."


"With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch."


"Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without."


"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."


"I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish."


"Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real."


"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."


"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."


"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."


"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."


"My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding."


"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."


"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."


"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."


"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."


"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."


"But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies."


"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."


"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."


"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."


"I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love."


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


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


"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
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