Experience Quotes - Page 39

• Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.

  Mary Wesley

  Real, Book, Writing

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• Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Writing, Feet

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• They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do

  Guillermo del Toro

  Faithful, Hellboy, Audience

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• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  Felix de Weldon

  Art, Cities, Talent

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• Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Doe

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

  Julia Stiles

  College, People, Trying

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• It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Past, Years, Judging

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, New York, Emotional

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• You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Blessing, Opportunity

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.111, Penguin

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• If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

  Laozi

  Life, Hate, Long

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Thinking, Wings

  "George H. W. Bush on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Self, Giants

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.155, SUNY Press

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• Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.114, Penguin

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

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• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

  George H. W. Bush

  Time, Butterfly, Doors

  "The Presidency: Bush's Final Salute". www.cnn.com. April 7, 1997.

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• All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Feelings, Matter

  1939 Quo Vadimus?, 'How To Tell A Major Poet From A Minor Poet'.

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• We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

  Terri Windling

  Dark, Sublime, Age

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• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

  Robert Wyatt

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

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• If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

  Mother Teresa

  Asking, Shame, Knows

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• I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

  Omarosa Manigault

  Add, Looks, Lessons

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• Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Study, Cherries

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.36, Random House

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• Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Entitled

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• I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

  Keanu Reeves

  About Yourself, Knows

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