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Quotes About Experience

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
~ Colin Powell
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.
~ Terence McKenna
I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.
~ Joseph Boyden
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
~ Samuel Beckett
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
~ Chita Rivera
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
~ Vance Havner
To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.
~ Tibor Kalman
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
~ Dalai Lama
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
~ Damien Hirst
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
~ Daniel Craig
Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.
~ Daniel Gilbert
The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
~ Terence McKenna
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
~ Mark Twain
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
~ Terence McKenna
Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
~ William Shakespeare
For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.
~ Dave Matthews
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.
~ Stuart Pearson Wright
As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.
~ David A. Bednar
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
~ William Whewell
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
~ Giorgio Napolitano