934 private quotes tagged experience

“There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.” — Bram Stoker

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“The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.” — Martha Beck

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“I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.” — Janice Dickinson

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“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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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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“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.” — Vaclav Havel

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“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“I write out of my intellectual experience.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'” — David O. Russell

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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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“No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.” — Calvin Klein

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“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” — John Stuart Mill

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“We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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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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“Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.” — Harry Browne

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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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“The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.” — Francesca Annis

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“I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.” — Samuel Dash

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“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” — Thomas Wolfe

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“I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.” — Max Lucado

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“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.” — Doug Coupland

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