Quotes with experience

Quotes 581 till 600 of 617.

  • Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Bergen Evans Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Campbell Brown Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Florence Nightingale Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Robert South Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Julian S. Huxley Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
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  • Bridgit Mendler Working on 'Good Luck Charlie' has been an awesome experience, and it's so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Betsy Beers Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • B. D. Wong Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Atom Egoyan You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Smith You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Albert Camus You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Greg Anderson You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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