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Experience

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. – Janice Dickinson

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

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. – Edward Witten

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. – Ezra Taft Benson

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. – Calvin Klein

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. – Muhammad Iqbal

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. – David Ogilvy

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. – Thor Heyerdahl

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. – Bram Stoker

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. – Martha Beck

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part. – Francesca Annis

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime. – Shirley MacLaine

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. – Samuel Dash

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. – Kiefer Sutherland

Experience is what you get while looking for something else. – Federico Fellini

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. – Roger Clemens

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. – Simon Bolivar

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. – Bruce Springsteen