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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

~ Erykah Badu

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~ Earl Wilson

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

~ Sharon Stone

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

~ Marilyn Monroe

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

~ Bo Bennett

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

~ Eric Butterworth

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

~ Robert Morgan

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

~ Beck

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

~ Javier Bardem

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

~ Mariah Carey

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

~ Victoria Clark

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

~ Vivienne Westwood

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

~ Sloane Crosley

Every experience makes you a man.

~ Eric Cantona

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

~ George Saunders

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

~ Cameron Díaz

Tragedy makes you grow up.

~ Jane Campion

My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.

~ Chris Pratt

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

~ Tim Gunn

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

~ Richard Eyre

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

~ Franklin P. Jones

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

~ Andre Agassi

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

~ Lauren Oliver

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

There's no fear when you're having fun.

~ Will Thomas

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

~ Swami Vivekananda

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

~ Noam Chomsky

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

~ Joyce Meyer

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

~ Jenna Marbles

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

~ Confucius

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

~ William Jennings Bryan

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

~ Kurt Elling

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

~ Chris Hadfield

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

~ Stevie Nicks

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

~ T. S. Eliot

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

~ Suzy Kassem

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

~ Gavin Newsom

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

~ Dale Carnegie