- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
- Amazing Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020