#experience

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ↗

— Helen Keller

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I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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A meal can be an erotic experience in itself. ↗

— Alex Comfort

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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. ↗

— Richard Wright

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

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I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. ↗

— Chris Cooper

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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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