934 private quotes tagged experience

“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.” — Jeff Bridges

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“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.” — Eric Bana

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“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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“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.” — Simon Bolivar

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

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“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.” — Alan Rickman

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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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“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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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 write out of my intellectual experience.” — Tom Stoppard

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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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“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” — Sonia Sotomayor

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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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“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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“I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.” — Ani DiFranco

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

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