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Experience Quotes


"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."


"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."


"When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity."


"Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'"


"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."


"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."


"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."


"To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses."


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


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


"All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine."


"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."


"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."


"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."


"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."


"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience."


"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 received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."


"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."


"You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart."


"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."


"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."


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


"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."


"When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it."


"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."


"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."


"I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience."


"I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength."


"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."


"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."


"Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction."


"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."


"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."


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


"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."


"Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it."


"Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."


"It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am."


"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."


"Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name."


"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."


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


"In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened."


"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."
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