Experience Quotes
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I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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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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Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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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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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.
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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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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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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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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
