- Life
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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
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
- Amazing Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions more Africans not just going online but having an amazing experience once they do. That's what drives me every single day when I get to work.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I make music I try to be as honest as I can to how I experience the world. Like how you arrange a piece of music formally. I tend to observe a lot of chaos or whatever, the fragmentation and melancholy. That's the filter I synthesize my world view with. If I didn't formally have that chaos and it was really linear, it would make my skin crawl.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with depicting what's weird and what isn't is that it's got to this point of near total oversaturation. There's definitely a threshold at which that language and experience becomes tedious. How can something be weird if everything is apparently weird?
- American Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020