Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. - John Hench
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. - Salvador Dali
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. - Isadora Duncan
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. - Thomas Lynch
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. - Natalie Portman
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? - George Eliot
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. - Nelson Mandela
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. - Milton Friedman
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. - Chauncey Wright
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. - M. Scott Peck
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. - Quincy Jones
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. - Laurel Clark
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. - Simon van der Meer
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. - Ed Harris
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. - Esa-Pekka Salonen
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. - Dave Obey
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. - Rudolph A. Marcus
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. - George Eliot
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
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. - Jeff Bezos
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. - Polykarp Kusch
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. - William Alexander
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions. - Lakhdar Brahimi
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. - Edgar Allan Poe
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. - Barbara Kruger
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler