Experience Quotes
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
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“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
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“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
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“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
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“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”
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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
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“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”
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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
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“The reward of suffering is experience.”
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“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”
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“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”
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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
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“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
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“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”
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“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
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“The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.”
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“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
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“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
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“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
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“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”
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“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
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“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
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“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.”
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“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
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“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
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“Experience is a great teacher.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.”
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“The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.”
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“Tragedy makes you grow up.”
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“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
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“Adventure is worthwhile.”
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“The noblest search is the search for excellence.”
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“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.”
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“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.”
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“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”
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“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”
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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
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“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”
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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
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“I think we are a product of all our experiences.”
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“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”
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“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”
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“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”
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“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
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“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
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“Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.”
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“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”
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“There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.”
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“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”
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“Every moment is an experience.”
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
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“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”
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“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”
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“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
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“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.”
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“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.”
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“My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
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“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”
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“All adventure is now reactionary.”
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“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”
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“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”
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“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
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“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
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“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
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“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”
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“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
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“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
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“Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.”
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“I didn't think; I experimented.”
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“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
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“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”
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“Color is an intense experience on its own.”
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“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”
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“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
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“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
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“Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.”
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“Example is the best precept.”
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“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
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“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”
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“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
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“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
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“Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”
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“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.”
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“I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”
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“All experience is subjective.”
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“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
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“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”
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“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
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“The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.”
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“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”
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“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
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“Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.”
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“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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“Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!”
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
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“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”
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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”
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“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”
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“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.”
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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
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“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
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“My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.”
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
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“Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.”
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
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“It's all about the experience and having a good time and connecting with the fans.”
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“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.”
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“What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.”
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“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”
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“Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.”
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“The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.”
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
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“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
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“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
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“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
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“I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”
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“Everything is a learning experience, both good and bad that happen to you. You take what happens and learn from it. That's how I look at everything, the good and bad. You learn about it, and you improve.”
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“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”
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“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”
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“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.”
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“Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
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“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”
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“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.”
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“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
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“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.”
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“'Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.' - e. e. cummings”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
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“Time gives you experience and maturity to face things in different ways.”
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
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“I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.”
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“My life is a roller coaster. A lot of good moments, a lot of bad moments, too. At the end of the day, it's all part of my experience.”
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
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“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
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“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”
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“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
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“My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.”
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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”
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“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”
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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
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“Chocolate milk has everything I need in a drink: the carbs, the protein, and the electrolytes. It's even backed by science, showing how you're able to recover. I can speak from experience, this is what I drink.”
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“Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.”
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“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
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“Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.”
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“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.”
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“If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.”
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
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“That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.”
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“Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.”
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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
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“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”
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“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.”
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“Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.”
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“My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.”
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“At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.”
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
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“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
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“Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.”
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“How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.”
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“I was extremely honoured and privileged to have had the opportunity to visit Oxford University. It was a great experience to share personal anecdotes from my career and my journey and to indulge in a fun interactive session with the students there.”
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“Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.”
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“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.”
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“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
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“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”
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“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
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“For me, life is about experience and being a good person.”
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“There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.”
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“We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.”
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“A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
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“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
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“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
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“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”
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“If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.”
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“The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.”
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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”
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“It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.”
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“When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.”
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“With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.”
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“It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.”
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“To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.”
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“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.”
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“Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.”
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“The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.”
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“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
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“The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.”
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“Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience.”
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“I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.”
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“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
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“A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.”
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“Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.”
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“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
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“The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.”
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“Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.”
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“The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.”
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“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
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“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.”
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“You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.”
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“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
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“The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.”
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“Every day is a learning experience where you fine tune yourself.”
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“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.”
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“There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.”
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“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.”
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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”
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“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”
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“When we shift our perception, our experience changes.”
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“See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.”
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“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
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“You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.”
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“In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.”
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“I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.”
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“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
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“Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.”
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“I have a list of things I want to experience and being a pilot was right on top of that list.”
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“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.”
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“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
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“We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.”
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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
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“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.”
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“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.”
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“The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.”
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“Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.”
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“All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.”
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“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”
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“Experience by itself is not science.”
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“As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.”
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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
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“It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.”
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“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
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“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”
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“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
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“I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world.”
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
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“As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.”
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“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.”
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“Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.”
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“We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.”
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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
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“Great moments of entertainment, great football, unforgettable evenings. I think that's what it's all about: experience, emotions, and the special touch that the Champions League brings on and off the field.”
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“We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.”
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“A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.”
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“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.”
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“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
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“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
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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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“Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.”
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“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.”
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“People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.”
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“Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.”
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“A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.”
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“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”
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“Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.”
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“Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.”
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“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
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“If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.”
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“Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.”
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“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
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“It was a great learning experience to work with all the stalwarts associated with 'Beyond the Clouds.' It's indeed a strong team to be working with.”
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“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
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“I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.”
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“The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.”
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“Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.”
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“To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.”
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“I've never had a homosexual or bisexual experience, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable to dip into those feelings. I think a lot of women have those feelings without acting on them.”
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“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
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“To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.”
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“The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.”
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“Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.”
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“Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.”
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“You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.”
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“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
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“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.”
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“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
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“One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.”
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“Innocence can be more powerful than experience.”
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“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”
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“Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”
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“Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.”
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“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
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“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”
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“I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.”
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“I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.”
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“I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.”
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“It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.”
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“Everything is a learning experience.”
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“Every outing is a learning experience.”
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“It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.”
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“From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.”
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“Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.”
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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
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“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.”
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“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
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“My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.”
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“I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.”
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“Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.”
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“Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.”
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“Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.”
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“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
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“It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.”
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“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”
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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
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“Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.”
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“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.”
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“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
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“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.”
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“I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.”
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“Zumba is a great dance-cardio option that's an immersive experience for participants and is not only effective but allows you to express yourself while getting in shape.”
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“They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.”
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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
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“My dad and one brother are working the farm. They laughed when I said I wanted to act. We work very hard, but for my family, it's just another experience in life, y'know?”
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“Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.”
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“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
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“I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of a gallery. But you dont. The learning experience actually happens once youre in the gallery.”
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“Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.”
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“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
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“Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.”
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“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”
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“The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.”
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“I've noticed that throughout my experience, when you keep positive energy, positive things happen.”
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“The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.”
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“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.”
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“The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.”
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“Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.”
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“Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.”
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“Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.”
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“'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.”
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“My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.”
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“Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.”
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“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”
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“Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.”
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“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.”
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“My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.”
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“Metro Station, it was a crazy experience, because I felt like we just blew up really fast.”
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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
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“Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.”
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
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“Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.”
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“It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.”
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“To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.”
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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”
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“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
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“You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.”
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“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”
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“There is no compression algorithm for experience.”
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”
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“Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.”
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“I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.”
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“Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.”
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“I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.”
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“Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”
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“The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.”
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“I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.”
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“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.”
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“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”
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“I had a wonderful experience being Catholic.”
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“Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.”
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“None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.”
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“Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.”
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“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”
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“The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.”
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“The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.”
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“Every fight is a learning experience, whether it's a win or a loss.”
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“A lot of things you see as a child remain with you… you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.”
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“From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.”
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“With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.”
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“We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.”
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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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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”
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“I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.”
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“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.”
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“You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.”
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“Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.”
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“As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.”
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“I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.”
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“I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'”
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“Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.”
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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
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“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”
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“Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.”
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“If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.”
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“When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.”
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“I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.”
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“Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.”
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“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
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“Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.”
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
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“Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.”
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“I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.”
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“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”
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“I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.”
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“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.”
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“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”
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“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”
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“You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.”
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“I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.”
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“A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.”
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“Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.”
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“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”
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“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
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“Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.”
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“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”
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“Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”
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“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”
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“Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.”
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“I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.”
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“For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.”
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“I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.”
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
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“In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.”
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“At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.”
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“I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.”
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“It is important to express oneself… provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.”
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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
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“It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.”
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“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
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“Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.”
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“At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.”
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“When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.”
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“If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.”
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“Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”
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“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”
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“The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.”
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“The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.”
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“That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.”
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“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.”
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“We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.”
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“The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.”
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“I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.”
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“The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.”
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“The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.”
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“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
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“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”
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“Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.”
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“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
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“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
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“But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”
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“Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.”
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“Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.”
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“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
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“It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.”
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“Moral Injury is differentiated from PTSD in that it directly relates to guilt and shame veterans experience as a result of committing actions that go against their moral codes. Therapists who study and treat moral injury have found that no amount of medication can relieve the pain of trying to live with these moral burdens.”
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“What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?”
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“It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.”
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“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”
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“I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.”
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“Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.”
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“If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.”
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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
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“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”
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“The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.”
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“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
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“As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.”
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“Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.”
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“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”
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“I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.”
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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”
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“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.”
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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
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“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
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“My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?”
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“Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.”
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“Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!”
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“I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.”
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“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
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“Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I've been blessed to experience such a lot.”
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“This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.”
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“Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.”
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“It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.”
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“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
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“Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.”
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“I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective.”
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“Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.”
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“The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.”
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“I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.”
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“Michigan is a very special place and the college experience only comes once.”
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“Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.”
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“The song 'Tyler Durden' is about the movie 'Fight Club,' so obviously, it's not a personal experience, but I love that song. It's my favorite song.”
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
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“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.”
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“In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.”
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“I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.”
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“Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.”
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“I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.”
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“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.”
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“All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.”
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“Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.”
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“There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.”
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“Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses… that's also the way you win over constituency.”
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“If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.”
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“If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is when you have something you really love to do and you can integrate that into your work life. I feel like it's a real privilege that I get to do something that is good for my community and good for the world. But it's also pleasurable for me.”
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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
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“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.”
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“I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.”
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“Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there.”
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“Everything we do, every decision we make, is to ensure the best possible Airbnb experience for our community and grow the love.”
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“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.”
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“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!”
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“The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.”
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“I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.”
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“I just want to say, don't be afraid, believe in yourself, whatever comes your way you have to experience it to really know what that is. So if you have too much fear inside you may let go of certain opportunities or chances, so trust in yourself and stick with it.”
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“At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.”
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“A lot of deaf people experience feeling left out. Feeling lonely.”
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
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“I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.”
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“My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.”
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“I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.”
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“There is always a new experience on every set, a new mistake you make. It is a learning experience.”
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“Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.”
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“Each goal, each win, going to different buildings, the rivalries, the excitement - it is something. I try to catch myself, you know, in the warm-ups, when you're on the line and the anthem and you get to some milestones and stuff. It's such a neat experience.”
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“Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.”
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“Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.”
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“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
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“We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'”
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“The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.”
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“Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.”
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“My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.”
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“In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.”
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“I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”
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“I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.”
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“My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.”
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“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.”
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“The human experience contains ups and downs no matter who you are.”
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“Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.”
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“In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.”
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“It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.”
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“The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.”
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“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”
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“You learn so much about how far you can push yourself and what you can do. How an experience like Antarctica helps you, it boosts your confidence.”
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“'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.”
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“Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.”
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“I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.”
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“My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'”
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“I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.”
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“A college experience is something everyone should have. Going to Waffle House late at night. Or the gym at midnight, until the wee hours of the morning. Just being kids. Hanging out.”
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“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.”
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“I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous.”
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“The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.”
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“One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.”
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“When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.”
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“From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.”
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“'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it.”
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“My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.”
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“I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.”
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“I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.”
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“Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.”
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“You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.”
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“Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.”
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“The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.”
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“The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.”
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“Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.”
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“Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.”
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“I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.”
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“The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.”
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“I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.”
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“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
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“Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.”
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“I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”
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“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.”
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“A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.”
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“My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.”
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“From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing.”
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“People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.”
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“I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'”
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“I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.”
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“Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.”
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“People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.”
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“The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.”
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“I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.”
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“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”
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“I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.”
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“If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'”
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“The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.”
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“When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.”
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“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
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“This is my experience on 'RuPaul's Drag Race:' three square meals a day, a challenge and put to bed by 9:30 P. M. Honey it doesn't get any better than that.”
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“I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.”
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“There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.”
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“To wear a floral shirt is an experience.”
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“I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.”
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“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
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“When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.”
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“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.”
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“I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.”
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“Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.”
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“I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.”
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“All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.”
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“In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.”
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“So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.”
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“Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.”
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“With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.”
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“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
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“Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.”
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“Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.”
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“There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.”
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“Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.”
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“Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.”
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“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”
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“I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.”
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“You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.”
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“Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.”
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“We were the last generation to have the experience of going out with our friends to the woods or the train tracks and the only way our parents could connect with us was to say, 'It's time for dinner.'”
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“I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others.”
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“The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place - one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.”
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“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.”
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“My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.”
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“I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.”
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“You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.”
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“No experience exists unless it's a shared one.”
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“Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.”
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“There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.”
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“Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.”
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“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
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“My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.”
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“Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”
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“The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them… an experience of communion.”
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“We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.”
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“It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.”
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“It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.”
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“From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.”
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“Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.”
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“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.”
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“I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.”
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“Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.”
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“It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash that changes your life. For other people, it could take five years of going to prison for them to realize they need change in their life. So it's not really the experience but more how the experience affects you.”
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“You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.”
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“I can honestly say that relegation is the single most traumatic experience you can have in a football career.”
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“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”
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“'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.”
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“If you feel a bit aggrieved or hard done by, you probably need the break just to reset yourself and give yourself time for different learning - to get out there and experience different things.”
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“My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.”
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“What separates old from the young is experience and patience.”
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“I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.”
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“Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.”
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“Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.”
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“At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.”
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“It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.”
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“Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.”
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“I am whatever you want me to be and I can't control that. My experience is my experience, but I can't really claim anything. I know when I take my wig off at night and I have to twist my hair up, I'm black. But I don't get too personal most of the time.”
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“The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.”
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“As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.”
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“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
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“I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.'”
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“I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.”
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“I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.”
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“Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.”
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“Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that has devastated our communities and has been neglected for too long.”
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“Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.”
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“What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.”
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“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.”
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“Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that. If I want something, I'm going to get it. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just motivates me more. For me, it makes me smile, because I just want to prove everybody wrong.”
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“I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it.”
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“For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone's experience is different. Especially black women and black men.”
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“When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you'll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It's just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that?”
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“Apple is the only company that can take hardware, software, and services and integrate those into an experience that's an 'aha' for the customer. You can take that and apply to markets that we're not in today.”
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“I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.”
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“While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.”
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“The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.”
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“People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.”
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“Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.”
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“Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.”
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“We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.”
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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
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“I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.”
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“It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.”
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“Essentially, I'm a 21-year-old who's a millionaire through gaming, vlogging, and my online experience. Yo, I'll take it!”
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“Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn't need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players.”
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“Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the English experience. By contrast, Blair believes he excised the past in 1997, though what no one on the left seems to have realised is that his historic mission was to destroy the Labour party, not the Tories.”
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“Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.”
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“I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.”
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“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
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“Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.”
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“You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.”
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“I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.”
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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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“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.”
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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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“The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.”
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“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”
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“You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get… It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.”
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“In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.”
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“I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of - I don't want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.”
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“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”
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“Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.”
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“I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.”
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“I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.”
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“My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.”
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“Doing a mall is not only construction of the physical place: what is important is the merchandising mix. We strive to serve the convenience of the public. We want shopping at our malls to be a unique and an enjoyable experience.”
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“I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.”
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“A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.”
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“In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.”
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“For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.”
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“Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'”
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“This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.”
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“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
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“For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.”
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“There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.”
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“If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.”
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“But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.”
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“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.”
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“Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.”
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“I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.”
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“I'm learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.”
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“Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”
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“The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.”
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“For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?”
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“It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.”
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“In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.”
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“I used to be selected for the Pennsylvania all-state orchestra. It was a thrill to go from my home town of Aliquippa clear across the state to Lancaster for the concerts. No kid is immune to that kind of experience.”
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“One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.”
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“Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.”
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“I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.”
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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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“Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.”
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“You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.”
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“The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.”
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“The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.”
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“When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.”
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“A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.”
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“When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.”
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“I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.”
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“Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.”
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“Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.”
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“The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.”
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“If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.”
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“Philly, I feel like, is where I became a man and matured my game and became better. I went through the good and the bad with my teammates and it taught me a lot. With the fans and all, it was a great experience.”
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“How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.”
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“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.”
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“At its very core, virtual reality is about being freed from the limitations of actual reality. Carrying your virtual reality with you, and being able to jump into it whenever and wherever you want, qualitatively changes the experience for the better. Experiencing mobile VR is like when you first tried a decent desktop VR experience.”
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“An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!'”
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“If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.”
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“I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.”
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“I guess everyone's had an experience when they felt overlooked, ditched, hurt or taken for granted. Where they felt like the only one behaving with common sense but still got the short end of the stick. We all feel like the odd one out at some point.”
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“I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.”
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“Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.”
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“Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.”
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“Because of engineering, I have been able to experience things I never thought I would be able to do as an undergraduate.”
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“I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.”
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“The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.”
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“As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.”
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“I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.”
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“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
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“My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.”
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“'Sukhi Mansacha Sadara' is a very simple, clean series and we all will experience the positive energy created by this simple subject.”
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“No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.”
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“I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response… it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.”
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“My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.”
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“While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.”
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“The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.”
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“I think experience is the biggest teacher.”
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“There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.”
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“I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.”
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“Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.”
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“My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.”
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“In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.”
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“The first time I went to the Met Ball, I was 16. I was an intern there and saved up to buy a staff ticket to the party. That was my favorite experience going. It wasn't the red carpet; it was the experience of being there for the first time.”
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“Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.”
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“Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.”
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“If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.”
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“Every person learns with time and experience.”
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“There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.”
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“The first 'Blade Runner' is a cool movie. It's a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.”
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“To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.”
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“Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.”
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“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”
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“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”
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“A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.”
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“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.”
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
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“When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.”
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“A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.”
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“I love the unknown, and any day that I get to experience someplace new is a good day.”
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“Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.”
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“First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World - Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.”
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“Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.”
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“The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.”
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“Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.”
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“When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.”
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“The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.”
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“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.”
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“Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.”
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“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”
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“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”
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“Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.”
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“I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.”
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“Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.”
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“That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.”
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“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.”
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“I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.”
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“I always say, 'Activity breeds activity.' You need to have activity happening in your store, and you need to create an experience. And I think if retailers focus on connection before transaction, they will win.”
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“Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.”
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“It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'”
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“Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.”
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“The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.”
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“Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.”
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“HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.”
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“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.”
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“Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.”
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“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.”
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“If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.”
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“We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.”
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“I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon, and there's no civilisation for thousands of miles.”
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“With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.”
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“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”
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“I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.”
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“My prayer became 'May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.”
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“Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.”
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“I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.”
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“I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.”
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“As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities… but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.”
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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
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“I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.”
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“George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.”
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“In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.”
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“Every time you go in to make a record with the same group of musicians, the communication gets better and better. You've got that joint experience, and you learn with every single one that you have on top of that.”
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“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
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“Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.”
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“No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.”
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“I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.”
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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
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“The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.”
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“The Red Viper enjoys life. He does not discriminate in his pleasures. This is the way he understands life, to live it to its fullest. And to limit yourself in terms of experience doesn't make any sense to him - what's beautiful is beautiful.”
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“It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.”
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“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
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“I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.”
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“My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.”
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“Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.”
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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.”
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“Life gives you a lot of experiences, sometimes it is a good experience and sometimes it is bad.”
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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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“When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.”
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“We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.”
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“Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.”
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“When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.”
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“'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.”
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“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
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“How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.”
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“For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.”
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“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.”
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“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.”
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
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“In all my experience - I had a very serious spinal injury - my entire career was only 11 years long, I can tell you that no one in Hollywood ever asked me for my political affiliation or my religious beliefs or anything like that. What they care about is making money.”
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“The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.”
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“See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.”
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“'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.”
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“Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.”
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“I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.”
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“I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.”
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“People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.”
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“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
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“We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.”
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
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“Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.”
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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”
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“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
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“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
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“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
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“There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.”
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“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”
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“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
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“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.”
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“You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I'm expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.”
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“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
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“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”
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“Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.”
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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
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“My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.”
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“It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.”
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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”
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“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
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“Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'”
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“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.”
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“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”
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“I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.”
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“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
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“I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.”
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“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
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“It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.”
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“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”
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“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.”
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“'Vikings' has been a great experience. You get so many great friends. And I love Ireland and the people and crew. It's a beautiful place.”
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“Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.”
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“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
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“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
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“So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.”
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“My music is like a diary. I use every experience.”
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“Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.”
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“Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!”
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“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.”
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“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
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“We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.”
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“Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.”
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“A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.”
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“I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.”
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“My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.”
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“Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.”
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“Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.”
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“Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.”
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“I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.”
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“Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.”
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“Every experience is different, teaches you a new thing - good or bad - and you just take it, learn from it and move on.”
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“I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.”
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“I love my job. I don't find it stressful, and I only took a rest because I didn't find another club after Real. It was not something that I needed because of stress, because that is not a problem for me. I don't have pressure. I like my job, and I know how it is. I have experience.”
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“I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.”
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“It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.”
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“At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.”
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
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“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”
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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”
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“What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.”
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“Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.”
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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
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“There were instances when I felt cheated because my feeling of social service was neither acknowledged or reciprocated by the second party. It is with growing age and experience that I realised, I was doing it for myself and not for others. Hence, I found my happiness and satisfaction in it.”
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“I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.”
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“If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.”
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“The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.”
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“Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.”
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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
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“If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.”
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“As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.”
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“The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.”
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“Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.”
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“We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.”
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“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
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“My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.”
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“The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
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“I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.”
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“I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.”
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“For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.”
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.”
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“We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.”
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“Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.”
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“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
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“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
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“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
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“It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.”
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“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”
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“It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything - 'Marathon' or 'All Money' or 'Crenshaw' - and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.”
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“Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.”
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“I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”
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“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
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“No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.”
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“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
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“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
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“You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.”
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“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
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“From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.”
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“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”
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“Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.”
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“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”
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“Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.”
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“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
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“I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.”