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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
~William Faulkner
~William Faulkner
Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
~Amanda Bynes
~Amanda Bynes
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~Barry LePatner
~Barry LePatner
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
~Susan Estrich
~Susan Estrich
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.
~Clifford Stoll
~Clifford Stoll
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
~Douglas Adams
~Douglas Adams
I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself.
~Casey Affleck
~Casey Affleck
I am very much in favour of video because the quality of production of video is now so good. It is a different experience to sitting in a cinema.
~Ann Macbeth
~Ann Macbeth
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
~Rodger Ward
~Rodger Ward
I believe my experience in the private sector and the public sector has truly prepared me to lead North Carolina into the 21st century.
~Erskine Bowles
~Erskine Bowles
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
~Miguel de Cervantes
~Miguel de Cervantes
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
~Jim Brown
~Jim Brown
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~Arthur Cohn
~Arthur Cohn
I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.
~Dannii Minogue
~Dannii Minogue
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
~Pat Morita
~Pat Morita
I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
~Ornette Coleman
~Ornette Coleman
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
~Bruce Beresford
~Bruce Beresford
I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
~Treat Williams
~Treat Williams
I had a conversion experience which was very real... There were no blinding lights, simply a quiet conviction I had found something.
~George Carey
~George Carey
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
~Margaret Whiting
~Margaret Whiting
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
~Michael Bolton
~Michael Bolton
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
~Perry Christie
~Perry Christie
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
~Harold Macmillan
~Harold Macmillan
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
~Lasse Hallstrom
~Lasse Hallstrom
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
~Eva Longoria
~Eva Longoria
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
~Major Taylor
~Major Taylor
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
~Robert Caro
~Robert Caro
I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.
~Lisa Snowdon
~Lisa Snowdon
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
~Sara Paretsky
~Sara Paretsky
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
~Nick Lowe
~Nick Lowe
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
~William Whipple
~William Whipple
I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
~Alan Alda
~Alan Alda
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
~Mandy Patinkin
~Mandy Patinkin
I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
~Glenn Ford
~Glenn Ford
I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.
~Alicia Witt
~Alicia Witt
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
~Julia Stiles
I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
~Dominique Swain
~Dominique Swain
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
~Toni Cade Bambara
~Toni Cade Bambara
If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
~Alberto Giacometti
~Alberto Giacometti
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
~Levi Strauss
~Levi Strauss
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
~John Polkinghorne
~John Polkinghorne
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
~Rollo May
~Rollo May
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
~Abigail Van Buren
~Abigail Van Buren
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
~Quincy Jones
~Quincy Jones
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
~Peter Mandelson
~Peter Mandelson
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
~Nick Stahl
~Nick Stahl
In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.
~Tim Meadows
~Tim Meadows
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
~Thor Heyerdahl
~Thor Heyerdahl
In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
~Alvin Adams
~Alvin Adams
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
~Christopher Lasch
~Christopher Lasch
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
~Edmund White
~Edmund White
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
~Ryszard Kapuscinski
~Ryszard Kapuscinski
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
~Xavier Becerra
~Xavier Becerra
It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
~Olga Ilyin
~Olga Ilyin
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
~Alexander Hamilton
~Alexander Hamilton
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
~Aneurin Bevan
~Aneurin Bevan
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
~Samuel Alexander
~Samuel Alexander
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.
~Terry Riley
~Terry Riley
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~Eknath Easwaran
~Eknath Easwaran
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
~Jason Mraz
~Jason Mraz
It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
~Raul Julia
~Raul Julia
It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
~Lukas Haas
~Lukas Haas
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
~John Sexton
~John Sexton
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.
~Tish Grier
~Tish Grier
It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
~Kathy Valentine
~Kathy Valentine
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.
~Toshihiko Fukui
~Toshihiko Fukui
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
~Max Roach
~Max Roach
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
~Galileo Galilei
~Galileo Galilei
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
~Freda Adler
~Freda Adler
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
~Lasse Hallstrom
~Lasse Hallstrom
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~Bell Hooks
~Bell Hooks
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
~Michael Gerber
~Michael Gerber
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
~Terry Prachett
~Terry Prachett
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
~Malcolm Bradbury
~Malcolm Bradbury
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
~William Faulkner
~William Faulkner
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
~Wil Wheaton
~Wil Wheaton
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
~William Styron
~William Styron
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
~David Herbert Lawrence
~David Herbert Lawrence
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
~Francis Bacon
~Francis Bacon
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
~Victoria Holt
~Victoria Holt
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
~Hermann Ebbinghaus
~Hermann Ebbinghaus
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
~Charles Dudley Warner
~Charles Dudley Warner
People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
~Neil Sheehan
~Neil Sheehan
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.
~Jim Cantalupo
~Jim Cantalupo
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
~Annie Besant
~Annie Besant
Some companies are offering to provide key recovery services now, but we don't have any experience with such services. That's part of the problem.
~Dorothy Denning
~Dorothy Denning
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
~Todd Gitlin
~Todd Gitlin
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
~Silius Italicus
~Silius Italicus
That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
~Benny Goodman
~Benny Goodman
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
~Bill Frist
~Bill Frist
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
~Peter Hammill
~Peter Hammill
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
~Nikolai Gogol
~Nikolai Gogol
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
~David Herbert Lawrence
~David Herbert Lawrence
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