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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
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.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
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.
The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
When designing - whether it's a living room, event space, or tablescape - I always want guests to feel as though they are part of the experience.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.
I'm a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that's good about video games is they can direct their own experience.
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
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.
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.
As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.