If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
~By Woody Allen ~
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
~By Kevin Garnett ~
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
~By Jane Badler ~
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
~By Bill Watterson ~
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
~By Jim McDermott ~
The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
~By Tom Wopat ~
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
~By Woody Allen ~
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
~By David Eddings ~
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
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.
~By Jim Brown ~
You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
~By Joy Page ~
This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.
~By Neville Marriner ~
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
~By Martin Ryle ~
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
~By Fred Durst ~
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
~By Al Capp ~
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
~By Teresa Nielsen Hayden ~
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
~By Terry Southern ~
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
~By Barbara Smith ~
This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
~By Jack Herer ~
In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
~By Rick Yune ~
I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
~By Saint Augustine ~
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
~By Amy Grant ~
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
~By Diane Kruger ~
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
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.
~By William Styron ~
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
~By Bill Murray ~
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
~By Albert Camus ~
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
~By Eugene Jarvis ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
~By Barbara Smith ~
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.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
~By Charley Pride ~
I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.
~By Dexter S. King ~
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
~By Harry Caray ~
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~By Earl Wilson ~
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
~By Debbie Harry ~
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
~By Frederick Leboyer ~
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
~By Debbie Harry ~
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
~By Anne Tyler ~
When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.
~By Jude Law ~
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
~By John Lithgow ~
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
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.
~By Alvin Adams ~
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
~By Felix Bloch ~
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
~By Allen Dulles ~
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
~By Richard Wright ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
~By Evan Dando ~
The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
~By Susan Powter ~
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
~By Karl Rove ~
My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
~By Jerry Kramer ~
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
~By Teilhard de Chardin ~
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
~By John Drinkwater ~
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
~By Bruno Rossi ~
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
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.
~By Amanda Bynes ~
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.
~By Major Taylor ~
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~By Rita Rudner ~
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
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