Our Experience Quotes
182 Our Experience quotes by 152 unique authors
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not…
— Billy Joel
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All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take…
— Evo Morales
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Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
— Henri Nouwen
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Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to…
— Sharon Salzberg
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected…
— Don DeLillo
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver…
— Lois Lowry
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My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion…
— Beth Moore
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we…
— C.S. Lewis
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Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
— Salman Rushdie
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We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me.…
— Rick Riordan
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By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel,…
— Thomas Hardy
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In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is…
— Wendell Berry
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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that…
— Thomas Mann
Who Wrote These Our Experience Quotes
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