- 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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone else, I thought Messi was the best player in the world, and to be here with him now is a fantastic honour. It's a great experience watching him in training and in matches... the way he can transform a match is unbelievable.
- Nov 07, 2020
So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it came to Sociedad, I didn't want to come back into football so soon after the Manchester United experience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020