Experience Quotes

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the… — Vannevar Bush
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors. — Johannes Itten
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience… — Bridget Riley
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience — Bridget Riley
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and… — Morrie Schwartz
Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly… — James Patterson
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then… — Venerable Bede
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. — Eric Church
Itâ€™s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectatorâ€™s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the… — Samuel R. Delany
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It… — Jan Gehl
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature. — George Henry Lewes
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to… — Andrew Carnegie
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. — William Graham Sumner
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life. — John Fante

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