Experience Quotes - Page 26

• Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

  Doug Benson

  Scary, Figures, Solitary

  "Comedy: The blunt Doug Benson". Interview with Brent Owen, www.leoweekly.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

  Howie Mandel

  Writing, Needed, Jokes

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• Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Fifty, Want, Audience

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

  Louis C. K.

  Fun, Happens, Knows

  "Meet Louis CK: the nicest guy in massively offensive comedy" by James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.

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• You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.

  Dana Gould

  Real, Thinking, Drawing

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• Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

  Dov Davidoff

  Fun, Sadness, Mean

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• Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

  Kobi Yamada

  Once In A Lifetime, Uniqueness, Lifetime

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Optimism, Guy, Definitions

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Funny Life, Short Life

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.716, Pan Macmillan

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

  Stella Adler

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Strength, Education, Wisdom

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Common Sense, Prevision

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Unexpected, Surprise

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.542

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• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

  Roger Bacon

  Queens, Science, Long

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• Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tangible, Theory

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• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Color, Political

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• It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

  Claude Bernard

  Inspirational, Educational, Learning

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• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Excess

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Action, Method

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

  Wernher von Braun

  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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