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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
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If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
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This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.
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I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.
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The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
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I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really alone.
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If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I would like to play in Premier League. It would be a great experience.
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