Shared Experiences Quotes

• You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

  Negash Ali

  Pain, People, Connections

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

  John Dewey

  Gains, Joints, Action

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, Thinking, Giving

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• The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

  John Dewey

  Sound, Connections, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.14, 谷月社

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• What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Being Human, Humans, Me Alone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

  Fernando Perez

  Magic, Acoustics, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  People, Diversity, Silence

  "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

  Richard Wright

  Loyalty, Devotion, Love Grows

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.368, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Communication implies communing, having a shared experience with another, not "talking at" or "talking down to" someone.

  Sharon Gannon

  Communication, Talking, Talking Down

  "Ask Sharon Gannon About Yoga & Veganism | Communication". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.

  Stan Barstow

  Sadness, Being In Love, Love Is

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• Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.

  Linda Simon

  Common Humanity, Differences, Perspective

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• That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

  Uma Thurman

  Drama, Writing, Fiction

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sex, Writing, Self

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• ... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings.

  Lois Wyse

  Taken, Appreciate, Feelings

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• Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Effort, Eternity

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• Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.

  Adam Rifkin

  Sarcasm, Talking, People

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• We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

  George W. Bush

  Way, Good Marriage, Made

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

  Rob Letterman

  Kids, Laughing, Joy

  Source: collider.com

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• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Reading, Views, Ideas

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

  Howard Rheingold

  Doe, Revolution, Kind

  Source: medium.com

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• It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Distance, Sound, Able

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Looks, Likes

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• Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Determination, Memories

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 273, 1985.

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