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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.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
– Frank Shorter
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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.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
– John Updike
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
– A. R. Ammons
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Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
– Kevin Smith
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Every moment is an experience.
– Jake Roberts
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Every experience makes you a man.
– Eric Cantona
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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.
– T. S. Eliot
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Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
– Bryan Cranston
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
– Zac Efron
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
– John Berger
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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
– Allen Tate
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
– Ellen Glasgow
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
– Beth Ditto
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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
– Charlie Kaufman
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
– Henry James
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Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
– Masaru Ibuka
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Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Color is an intense experience on its own.
– Jim Hodges
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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
– John Hawkes
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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
– Ayelet Waldman
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
– Roger Ascham
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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
– Richard Dawkins
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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.
– Emma Watson
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
– Christopher Nolan
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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.
– Bob Geldof
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But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
– Hugh Grant
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
– Charles De Secondat
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But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
– Wallace Shawn
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But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
– Evan Davis
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
– Immanuel Kant
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Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
– Shimon Peres
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
– John Polkinghorne
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
– Samuel Alexander
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
– Walter Benjamin
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Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
– Armistead Maupin
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
– Ralph Fiennes
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.
– Kim Cattrall
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
– Barney Frank
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
– Paulo Coelho
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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
– Ernie Harwell
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
– Ezra Taft Benson
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
– Vincent D'Onofrio
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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.
– Ellen Key
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At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
– Rob Sheffield
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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
– Ann Coulter
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As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
– Jacques Lacan
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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
– Edward Witten
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
– Rachel Weisz
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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.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
– Erykah Badu
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
– Delta Goodrem
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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
– Martin Scorsese
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
– Neale Donald Walsch
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
– Donald Norman
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And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
– Busy Philipps
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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.
– Ayrton Senna
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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.
– John Abizaid
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And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
– Jason Statham
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
– Vicente Fox
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And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
– Davy Jones
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
– Don Marquis
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
– James Baldwin
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An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
– Sholem Asch
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America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.
– Jennifer Granholm
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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.
– Ingrid Newkirk
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
– Greg Anderson
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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
– Walter Salles
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All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
– Samuel Johnson
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
– Bodhidharma
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All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
– Sonia Sotomayor
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
– Chauncey Wright
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All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
– John Baldacci
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
– Henry Miller
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All experience is subjective.
– Gregory Bateson
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
– Henry Adams
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
– Jack Kingston
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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
– Jaron Lanier
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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.
– Jamie Foxx
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
– Vincent D'Onofrio
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
– Damian Lewis
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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.
– Wallis Simpson
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
– Carly Fiorina
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
– Ian Mcewan
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
– John le Carre
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A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
– Curt Siodmak
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
– Edward Norton
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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.
– William Kingdon Clifford
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