934 private quotes tagged experience

“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.” — James Cash Penney

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“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.” — Edith Wharton

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“Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.” — Rick Springfield

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“Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.” — Kiefer Sutherland

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“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Fred Brooks

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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” — J. Paul Getty

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“A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.” — Helmut Jahn

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“My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” — David Bowie

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“I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.” — Scott Baio

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

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“You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.” — Dee Dee Myers

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

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“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.” — David Ogilvy

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“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.” — Bell Hooks

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“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.” — Christina Ricci

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“I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.” — Diablo Cody

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“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” — Earl Wilson

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