934 private quotes tagged experience

“Every moment is an experience.” — Jake Roberts

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“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.” — David Cameron

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“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” — Denis Waitley

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“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” — Georges Clemenceau

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“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.” — Carl Rogers

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“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.” — Simon Mainwaring

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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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“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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“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.” — Lou Holtz

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“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.” — Lil Wayne

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“Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.” — Chinua Achebe

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“And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.” — Donald Norman

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“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.” — Diane Arbus

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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” — John Locke

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“Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.” — Greg Anderson

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“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” — Vernon Law

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“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” — Jack Kingston

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