“Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.”
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“In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.”
“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.”
“The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.”
“All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.”
“Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.”
“Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.”
“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.”
“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”
“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”
“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.”
“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.”
“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.”
“Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.”
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
“Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.”
“There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.”
“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.”
“Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?”
“Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.”
“I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.”
“Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.”
“Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.”