934 private quotes tagged experience

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.” — Peter Hammill

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“I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.” — Clara Hughes

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“We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.” — Brian Eno

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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.” — Jodie Foster

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“The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.” — Isadora Duncan

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“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” — Jeff Bezos

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“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.” — Tony Robbins

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“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” — Tony Robbins

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“Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.” — John Dewey

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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” — Taylor Swift

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“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.” — Carl Jung

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“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.” — George Washington

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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.” — Steve Jobs

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“I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.” — Steve Jobs

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