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" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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" 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. "

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" Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. "

" To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. "

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

" There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. "

" I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. "

" Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. "

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" A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength. "

" If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests. "

Alexander the Great

" Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. "

Heinrich Rohrer

" 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

" My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. "

" This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. "

" When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey. "

" When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience. "

" Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D. "

" When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all. "

" I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself. "

" As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. "

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

" Moral Injury is differentiated from PTSD in that it directly relates to guilt and shame veterans experience as a result of committing actions that go against their moral codes. Therapists who study and treat moral injury have found that no amount of medication can relieve the pain of trying to live with these moral burdens. "

" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

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" Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different. "

" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "

John Stuart Mill