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" I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. "

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" Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else. "

" I think we are a product of all our experiences. "

Sanford I. Weill

" Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. "

" Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. "

" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "

" For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I'm very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens to be rooted in my community's trans experiences. "

" I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! "

William Shakespeare

" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "

" I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. "

" Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that. "

" I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.' "

" You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. "

Ernest Hemingway

" If this country wants to elect someone with no political experience who is racially insensitive and golfs... In my first 100 days, I will make Taco Tuesday the law. "

" The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen. "

Simon Mainwaring

" Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. "

" Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. "

" I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel. "

" Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. "

Karen Thompson Walker

" Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. "

" When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by. "

" Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. "

" I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what. "

" Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. "

" When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do. "

" Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. "

" Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. "

" Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! "

" It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. "

Robert Baden-Powell