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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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I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.
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Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
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Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
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From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
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A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
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Being in the studio, for me, can be a miserable experience - I can really psych myself out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly cherish the time and experience with friends that I have been making music with for so many years, even decades now.
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Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
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I am definitely a Hillary, a Secretary Clinton supporter. I think that she's got the experience and the leadership capabilities to be the next president - and most importantly, her understanding of domestic and foreign policy and social issues.
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That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
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I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
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