Experience Quotes
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The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
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There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.
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Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.
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The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
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Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
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All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.
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I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.
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Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.
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I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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Grief: An emotional experience often brought about by a great sense of loss. The subject of this loss is completely immaterial.
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If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
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I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
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It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.
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I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
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You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
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Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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This is a chance to make a statement to the nation about where we stand as a program. We have young talent and successful alumni and this is a platform to get more experience.
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You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.
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An uncritical scientist is a contradiction in terms: if you meet one, chances are that you have encountered a charlatan. By contrast, a critical clinician is a true rarity, in my experience. If you meet one, chances are that you have found a good and responsible doctor.
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I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.
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I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.
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That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.
