- Education
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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
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries, or is so much about black people as victims in this country, and black people not taking control of their own lives and their own destinies.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
- Mississippi
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.
- Deepening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable. That's not been my experience. I always want to try something new.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020