#experience

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. ↗

— Mary Daly

#many #religious #religious experience #substitute #work

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. ↗

— Evan Dando

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#did #experiences #her #i #i am

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

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