“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
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“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.”
“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.”
“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”
“We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.”
“Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.”
“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”
“It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.”
“We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.”
“Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.”
“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”
“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!”
“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.”
“The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.”
“Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.”
“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”