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" Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. "

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" We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. "

" Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience. "

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" Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time. "

" As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion. "

" I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it. "

" Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. "

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" My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. "

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

" What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. "

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" Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts. "

" It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. "

" I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. "

" The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are. "

" Rejection is the one constant of human experience. "

Howard Jacobson

" Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. "

" I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there. "

" The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. "

" The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain. "

" It's interesting: when your wife is pregnant and you're expecting, everyone's like, 'It's incredible. Get ready. It's magic. It's the most life-changing experience you'll ever have. Brace yourself for heaven.' And then the second the baby comes, everyone's like, 'Welcome to hell! Ha ha ha! You fool!' "

" I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. "

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" It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "

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" The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. "

Silvio Berlusconi

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" A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment. "