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Experience Quotes by Martin Jacques
- We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes,…
- China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas the…
- In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make…
- In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the…
- The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood