934 private quotes tagged experience

“There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.” — Diablo Cody

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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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“One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.” — 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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“A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.” — Neale Donald Walsch

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“I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.” — Maurice Sendak

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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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“Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.” — Herbert Read

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“Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.” — Margaret Fuller

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“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.” — Tony Campolo

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“I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.” — Marc Andreessen

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“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.” — Gary Neville

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“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.” — David Ogden Stiers

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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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“Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.” — Bryan Cranston

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“Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.” — Robert Lanza

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“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.” — Andre Agassi

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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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“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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“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.” — Martha Plimpton

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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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“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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“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.” — Kinky Friedman

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“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.” — John Dewey

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