Experience Quotes - Page 19

• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, 4th Of July, School

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.120

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• What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

  John Templeton

  Real, Important, Use

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• Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

  Mark Van Doren

  Words Of Wisdom

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• In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Self, Portraits

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Music, Character

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

  James Burnham

  Attitude, Thinking, Atheism

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• In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Focus, Each Day, Way

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• There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

  Rubem Alves

  Reading, Order, Joy

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• The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.

  Yamada Koun

  Nature, Philosophical, Self

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night.
  I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
  If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
  I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
  My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
  Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Beautiful

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• Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Men, Desire

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Death, Trainspotting

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hard Work, Mean, Humility

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• Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Real

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 13, 2012

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

  Viola Spolin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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