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" One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. "

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Karen Thompson Walker

" The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them. "

Julian Treasure

" 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. "

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

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

Martin Scorsese

" The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier. "

" Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through. "

" Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. "

" Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. "

" Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions. "

" I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. "

" I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. "

" If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. "

" All experience is an arch, to build upon. "

" Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. "

" Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. "

" We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment. "

Janine Shepherd

" You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. "

" European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. "

Virginia Postrel

" Experience by itself is not science. "

" Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. "

" Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. "

" In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. "

" 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 was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong. "

" There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person. "

" In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. "

" Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. "

" For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam