934 private quotes tagged experience

“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” — Anne Lamott

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“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.” — Lewis Thomas

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“And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.” — Mike Myers

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“Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.” — Dan Stevens

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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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“I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.” — Willie Nelson

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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” — John W. Gardner

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“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.” — David Hockney

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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.” — Charlie Parker

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“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston

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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.” — Amy Grant

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“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.” — Harry Callahan

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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” — Debbi Fields

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“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?” — Andrea Jung

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“Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.” — Loretta Lynn

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“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.” — Kristen Wiig

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“Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.” — Susan Orlean

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“Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.” — Colin Farrell

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

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