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Experience Quotes


"If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not."


"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."



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


"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."


"I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world."


"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."


"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."


"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."


"At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience."


"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."


"The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing."


"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience."


"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."


"What people want is a seamless Web experience."


"The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience."


"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."


"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."



"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."



"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."


"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."


"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."


"But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get."


"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."


"It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience."


"It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted."


"'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'!"


"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."


"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."


"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."


"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."


"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."



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


"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."



"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."



"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."


"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."



"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."


"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."



"Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority."


"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."


"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."


"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."



"This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions."


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


"The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is."


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