“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
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“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.”
“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
“The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.”
“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.”
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.”
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
“I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.”
“I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.”
“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
“I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.”
“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.”
“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”