Unpleasant Experiences Quotes

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Tolerance, Enemy

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• What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment.

  Doc Childre

  Appreciation, Heart, Keys

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• Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Waiting, Flying, Hours

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• I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

  Robert Quine

  Piano, Lessons, Piano Lesson

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• ...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

  Patrick deWitt

  Towns, Welcome, Transformation

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.112, Granta Books

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• Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose wars never ended, and from an early age I was passionate about understanding the world through knowledge.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, War, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Earthquakes, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.114, Routledge

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• Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

  Josh Lucas

  Player, Tennis, Actors

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

  Crane Wilbur

  Hands, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Neighbor, Schadenfreude

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Cutting, Enemy

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• It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

  Randy Schekman

  Paper

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• Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

  Chris Boardman

  Cycling, Eight, Suffering

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• Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lessons, Damage, Firsts

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