934 private quotes tagged experience

“I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.” — Keanu Reeves

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“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.” — James Russell Lowell

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“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.” — Colin Powell

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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.” — Clarence Day

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“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.” — Saint Augustine

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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.” — M. Scott Peck

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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.” — Vaclav Havel

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“I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.” — Laurel Clark

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“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.” — Don Marquis

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“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.” — George Santayana

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“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.” — Bill Gates

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“The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.” — Frank McCourt

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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.” — Pope John Paul II

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“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.” — Henrik Ibsen

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“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” — Al Gore

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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” — John W. Gardner

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.” — Johnny Depp

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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” — James Russell Lowell

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