All Quotes

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.
‐‐ Robert Adams

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.
‐‐ Vladimir Bukovsky

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.
‐‐ Chris Carter

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
‐‐ Anita Hill

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.
‐‐ Myron Scholes

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
‐‐ Anna Garlin Spencer

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.
‐‐ Matthew Modine

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.
‐‐ John Battelle

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
‐‐ John Barton

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
‐‐ Dan Ariely

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
‐‐ Ted Rall

The exploitation of distressed workers and the social disparities must not continue.
‐‐ Moshe Kahlon

The exploration for oil and gas off our shores can play a role in making energy more affordable and accessible... However, effective safety measures must be in place, and exploration must be done in an environmentally sensitive manner that in no way interferes with our military.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.
‐‐ Astro Teller

The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
‐‐ Gary Locke

The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
‐‐ Maria Cantwell

The Export-Import Bank's long legacy of crony capitalism has hurt the livelihoods and businesses of many Americans who don't get special treatment from this misguided government program.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.
‐‐ Michael Symon

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.
‐‐ Michael Schultz

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
‐‐ Gustave Courbet

The expression of divinity is in variety.
‐‐ Sheri S. Tepper

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
‐‐ Josh Homme

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
‐‐ Charles Fourier