- People
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great family, so I'm lucky I've gotten to experience all the joys of having a family.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020