Brian Christian Quotes
Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.Brian Christian
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins -
I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
Dan Wheldon -
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck -
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Earl Wilson -
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Rachel Cusk
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
Patricia Heaton -
Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
Ed Bradley -
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley -
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
Gail Simmons -
Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.
Warren Bennis
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields -
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We who know personal religion by experience know that there is nothing on earth to compare with the moral force exerted by it. It has demonstrated its social efficiency in our own lives.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
Vannevar Bush -
Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience.
Amanda de Cadenet -
Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.
Diego Klattenhoff
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I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.
Mark V. Hurd -
Schatten in der Flamme. - Die Flamme ist sich selber nicht so hell, als den Anderen, denen sie leuchtet: so auch der Weise.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
Patrick deWitt -
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
Tara Brach -
Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.
Brian Christian