934 private quotes tagged experience

“Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.”— Muqtada al Sadr

“I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.”— Lawrence Kasdan

“While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.”— Barney Frank

“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.”— Carlos Fuentes

“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”— Carlos Fuentes

“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.”— Barney Frank

“Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.”— Jason Mraz

“Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.”— John Berger

“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.”— David Copperfield

“In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.”— Minnie Driver

“I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!”— Yani Tseng

“My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”— Andrea Arnold

“I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.”— Jason Mraz

“I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.”— Mia Wasikowska

“If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.”— Henry Kravis

“In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.”— Ian Mcewan

“You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.”— Talib Kweli

“If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.”— Bob Feller

“The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.”— Hugh Mackay

“I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.”— Henning Mankell

“When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'”— Mitch Daniels

“There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.”— Gary Gygax

“Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.”— Marissa Mayer

“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”— Richard Cecil

“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.”— Brittany Snow