Amy Dickinson Quotes

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

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• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Name
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

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

  

  Harry Caray
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Doing

• There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Done
  • Marriage

• I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Different
  • Children
  • Experience

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Experience

• The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Experience
  • Journey

• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions more Africans not just going online but having an amazing experience once they do. That's what drives me every single day when I get to work.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Work
  • Long
  • Experience

• Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Experience

• I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Men

• The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Attitude
  • King

• When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

  

  Amy Dickinson
  • Experience
  • Speak
  • Criticizing