“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
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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
— Bessie Coleman
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“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
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“Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.”
— David Mitchell
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
— Mao Zedong
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“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
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“One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.”
— Julius Erving
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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.”
— Emil Zatopek
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“The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.”
— Barbara de Angelis
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“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.”
— Ian Mcewan
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“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.”
— Martha Plimpton
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