Experience Quotes
I knew immediately that this drug would have importance for psychiatry but, at that time, I would never have believed that this substance could be used in the drug scene, just for pleasure. For me it was a deep and mystical experience and not just an everyday pleasurable one. I never had the idea that it could be used as a pleasure drug.
– Albert Hofmann
It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had the feeling that I saw the earth and the beauty of nature as it had been when it was created, at the first day of creation. It was a beautiful experience! I was reborn, seeing nature in quite a new light.
– Albert Hofmann
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
– John Holt
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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
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– Elbert Hubbard
When I first came here, I thought, wouldn't it be great to get a medal, and I was third last year at Worlds, and it was a huge step up for me, and it was just a huge moment in my life, and, y'know, once I got here, it really didn't matter any more to me. I just wanted to go out and enjoy the experience. I wanted to skate.
– Sarah Hughes
When a book is written, it's a final product. But, when a script is finished, it's really just a blueprint. And it's an extraordinary experience for me to watch someone take what I wrote and imagined and make it three-dimensional. And it's great if someone adds something I hadn't thought of.
– John Hughes
Everybody's always talking about new sounds. I haven't heard any yet. I haven't heard any new sounds. I'm not saying I've heard all sounds; I'm saying that if you say new sounds what you're really talking about is the re-born experience. In other words, I've been re-born to sound.
– Jerry Hunt
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
– Jack Hanna
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– Alistair Harding
I've always believed that good writing comes from experience. I have been approached by a number of younger students, people in their twenties, who have asked 'Where do you get your ideas?'. Of course, ideas are all around us - in the morning paper, the weekly news, even overheard in crowded restaurants, courtrooms, and sports arenas. When you write stories about the human experience of crime, there is no shortage of material in the things people do every day.
– Richard M. Helms
– Jim Horning
– Ruth Hubbard
– Robert Green Ingersoll
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'
– Robert Green Ingersoll
– Isabella I
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– Gerald Jampolsky
– Vernon Johns
– Immanuel Kant
My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules.
– Donald Knuth
– Rick Kaplan
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
– Will Kemp
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– Doug Larson
– C. S. Lewis
Microsoft has stretched itself so thin, within a couple of years it will experience serious reversals. We'll make the millennium my deadline.
– Bob Lewis
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I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.
– David Low
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You go out and perform every day, so you gotta take care of yourself, health-wise, as far as drinking enough water, getting enough sleep. You're having after parties every day. You're on the road, you're messing with women, you're doing this, you're doing that. It's crazy. I mean, it was a great experience, what can I say? I loved it.
– Ludacris
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I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.
– Fritz Lang
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Things we do and experience have resonance. It can die away quickly or last a long time; it can have a clear center frequency or a wide bandwidth; be loud, soft or ambiguous. The present is filled with past experience ringing in various ways and now is colored by this symphony of resonance.
– Paul Lansky
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
– Bill Maher
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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
– Orison Swett Marden
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
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
– Rollo May
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What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.
– John Mayer
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– Henry Miller
If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. It's not to denigrate expensive movies. I don't want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
– Alfred Molina
I liked counterpoint because of the way that things went together. That was interesting because the musical elements were separable and then you could warp all of these lines and times and spaces into each other and put voices together. That was a different kind of experience from harmony and I was very affected by it, too; I was escaping the boundaries of space and time.
– Robert Morris
I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakespeare his writing shed the most perfect light - there's no striving in it, no personality. Well, of course, wouldn't I love to do that!
– Alice Munro
True believers in the freedom and justice of the American system, many internees simply could not believe that their country could do this to them. My own father could not even talk about his experience in the Tule Lake Internment Camp until 40 years after his freedom was returned to him.
– Bob Matsui
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– Rita Mero
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It was a real experience, not just, 'I'm going to the Olympics,' but it was a life skill, an eye-opener to the real world situation. I was 16, gone from my parents for two months, living by myself in a hotel. I was in charge of how much I ate, how much sleep I got. You grow up extremely fast. You know how to set goals for yourself, and how to work toward those goals. You know time management and how to work through adversity.
– Debbie Meyer
I'm very young, I have a lot to learn. I felt like I grew a lot... I got to watch myself, and, boy, I am spoiled sometimes. I'm also annoying. I learned so much about myself, but it's very hard to have a learning experience in front of a viewing audience that doesn't know I'm learning.
– Jenna Morasca
I don't have to tell you that this is a very tough form of motorsports, and I don't care who you are - it can make heroes overnight and it tends to let people without a lot of experience make names for themselves almost immediately. Then all of the sudden they're on the outside looking in.
– Shirley Muldowney
– Florence Nightingale
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
– Nick Nolte
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