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Experience Quotes


"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get."


"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree."


"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."



"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."


"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."


"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."



"The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s."


"The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience."


"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."


"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."


"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."


"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy."


"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."


"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."



"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."


"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."


"Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil."


"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."


"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."


"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."


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


"The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off."


"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."


"Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary."


"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."


"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."


"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."


"Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald."


"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months."


"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."


"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."


"The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment."


"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."


"Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America."


"Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience."


"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"


"You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience."


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


"Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun."


"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."


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


"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."


"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."


"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."


"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul."


"One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself."


"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 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."
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