- Money
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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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
London 2012 was superb. It was the best triathlon experience in a million years.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lollapalooza, that was one of my worst shows. We just played at, like, 3 in the afternoon; it was like the hottest, most miserable thing. My shoes were melting. I just thought I was going to die. It was the most horrible experience. I lasted, what, four songs? In front of quite a lot of people. That was one of my least favorites.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
- Case
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020