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Experience Quotes
"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."
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"I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience."
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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"I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
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"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences."
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"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."
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"Experience is more important than knowledge."
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"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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"Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
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"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."
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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
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"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
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"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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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
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"There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience."
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"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."
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"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."
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"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
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"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion."
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"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
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"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
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"I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all."
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest."
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"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
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"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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"The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience."
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"It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience."
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