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Quotes About Experiences

You'll never hear interesting stories if you don't ask questions. And there are interesting stories everywhere. Even the most boring person has one interesting story.
~ Unknown
Is your badness so varied that it is still delightful? I expect anything gets boring after a while.' He looked at her with interest. 'How perceptive you are. It takes a good deal of effort to keep badness from being boring. One must seek out new experiences and challenges. Our mutual friends may think I have an easy life, but being notorious is grueling work after a few years.
~ Madeline Hunter
Do you know I think it is just terrible," said Mrs. Merivale when she had done carving, "the way you fellows wont tell us any of your experiences over there. . . . Lots of them must have been remarkably interesting. Jimmy I should think you'd write a book about your experiences.
~ John Dos Passos
The father is to speak into his son's heart deep affirmation. Yes, you do. You have what it takes. He needs a hundred experiences that will help him get there, and he is wounded and emasculated when he is kept from those experiences, or left on his own to interpret them, or when no one is there to help him in his journey toward initiation.
~ John Eldredge
Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.
~ John Irving
People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness.
~ John Irving
seventy-five Michelin inspectors cover all of Europe and many fewer the rest of the world. They eat out on 240 days a year, file more than 1,000 reports, and must order the maximum number of courses and always clear their plates. To remain anonymous they never return to the same place for several years, and never reveal what they do—even to their parents.
~ John Lloyd
The Rule teaches that if we take control of our lives, if we are intentional and careful in how we spend the hours of each irreplaceable day, if we discipline ourselves to live in a balanced and thankful way, we will create from our experiences, whatever they may be, the best possible life. Surely this knowledge is as invaluable now as it was in the sixth century.
~ Unknown
Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.
~ L. Todd Rose
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
~ Jessica Lange
I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.
~ Mike Mills
If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.
~ Anita Hill
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
~ Suman Pokhrel
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.
~ Steve Jobs
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~ Queen Latifah
I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.
~ Perry Bellegarde
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
~ Edward Tufte
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
~ Van Morrison
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
Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
~ Mary Lou Retton
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE.
~ Vikrmn