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Experience Quotes


"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."


"So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that."


"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."


"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."


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


"Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."


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


"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."


"When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had."


"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."


"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."


"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."


"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."


"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."



"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."


"What people want is a seamless Web experience."


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


"I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work."


"It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour."


"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."


"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part."


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


"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."


"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."


"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."


"From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker."


"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."


"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."


"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has."



"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."


"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."


"Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience."



"Wise is the one who learns from another's mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them."


"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."


"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."


"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."


"Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing."



"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience."


"The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know."


"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."


"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."


"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far."


"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."


"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."


"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."


"I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us."


"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."


"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."
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