Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through."
Different Experiences quotes
Different Experiences
69 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Linda Stone
Businesswoman
"Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started."
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
"That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience."
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"Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn."
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"We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell."
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"There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A."
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"A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience."
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"Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience."
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"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."
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"Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences."
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"Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far."
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"Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that he prepared us to go onstage. It was different than anything I've done and it was a different way of being directed, so I tried to take my different experiences of these directors and give those to my actors."
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"Producing and deejaying are two different outlets to the same creativity. When I'm in the studio I get to create and go through my process. When I'm on stage I get to share the results of that process with everybody. It's two different experiences but they both go back to the same thing and I love them both."
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"You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting."
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