- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.
- Nov 07, 2020
I built a relationship and a rapport with Muhammad Ali, and I could never top that experience.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020