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• I’m not a guy that believes you’ve got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

  Phil Simms

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Believe

• Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

  David Ogilvy

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Consumer

• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

  David Ogilvy

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Good

• I think any spiritual experience that’s worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, ‘If you’re not laughing, then you’re not getting it.’

  David O. Russell

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Spiritual

• I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you’re basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you’re creating a song or a narrative out of it.

  David O. Russell

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Think

• We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

  Burt Rutan

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Dreams, Travel

• With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right – it does look like that.

  David McCullough

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Like

• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.

  Robert Lee Fulghum

  Topics in Belief, Death, Experience, Grief, History, Knowledge, Life, Love

  Tags in Myth, Facts, Hope, Imagination

• I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Topics in Experience
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  A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

  William Styron

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Exhausted, Reading, Book

• I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I’m also aware that I’ve loved every minute of the ‘Potter ‘experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

  David Jonathan Heyman

  Topics in Experience, Love

  Tags in Time

• There’s certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

  David John Chalmers

  Topics in Experience

• In those days, it didn’t take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

  Phil Harris

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Imagination

• It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Experience

• What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

  David Eugene Price

  Topics in Experience

• We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

  David Elliott Drew

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Time, Think

• The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it’s probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

  David Eagleman

  Topics in Experience

• As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

  David Crystal

  Topics in Experience

• On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

  Bruce Willis

  Topics in Experience

• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I’m still trying.

  John Sexton

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Him, Trying