- Matter
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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
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
- Blessings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.
- Civilisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas the West has primarily been shaped by its experience of nation, China has been moulded by its sense of civilisation.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.
- Attainable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020