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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences. -- Maisie Williams
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty. -- Kelley Armstrong
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. -- Rachel Roy
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. -- Zainab Salbi
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. -- Walter Benjamin
Based on past experience, I hope not. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. -- Ernest Holmes
Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. -- Deborah
Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. -- Deborah
A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience. -- Nils John Nilsson
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. -- H. G. Wells
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences. -- David Halberstam
Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way. -- Joyce Meyer
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy. -- Adam Anderson
Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context. -- L. Todd Rose
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. -- Paul Wellstone
The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English. -- Paul Clitheroe
Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you. -- Mike Basevic
Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny. -- Michelle Obama
When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience. -- Bertrand Russell
It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. -- Auliq Ice
Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel. -- Jarod Kintz
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience. -- Raymond Pettibon
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work -- David Hume
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning. -- John Dewey
Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights. -- Paul Azinger
It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well. -- Bethany Hamilton
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions. -- Bertrand Russell
If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. -- John Burns
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. -- Charles Spurgeon
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free. -- Louise Hay
Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child. -- Kara Durbin
We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation. "Based on past experience, I hope not. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad's regime will ultimately fall from the heavy toll of the horrors it has spawned. From past experience with such regimes, this scenario is unlikely to happen. -- Ahmed Zewail
I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth. -- Jerry Yang
Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be? -- Gordon W. Allport
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be? -- Gordon W. Allport
I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't. -- Kaki King
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle. -- Walker Percy
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. -- Ernst Haas
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them. -- James Madison
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness. -- David Hume
Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. -- Walter Benjamin
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend. -- William James
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience. -- Les Brown
By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones. -- David Stern
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience. -- David Eddings
There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter. -- Max Wertheimer
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience. -- Benjamin Graham
I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything. -- Gil Gerard
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. -- Bill Kurtis
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. -- Edward Bond
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions. -- Norman Finkelstein
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. -- Bob Dylan
I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences. -- Justine Bateman
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present. -- Marianne Williamson
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. -- Louise Gluck
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. -- Jim Rohn
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. -- George Washington
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. -- Gene Oliver
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past. -- Pat Morita
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. -- Bruce Springsteen
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. -- George H. Mead
Each journey is an experience of the past. -- Robert Better
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. -- Henry David Thoreau
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. -- John Quincy Adams
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. -- Thomas Hobbes
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. -- George Washington
If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government. -- Edward Britton
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. -- Henry David Thoreau
You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination. -- Debasish Mridha
I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past. -- Deepak Chopra
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience. -- Louise Hay
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience. -- Vivian Gornick
Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. -- Bill Crawford
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. -- David Hume
Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential. -- Narendra Modi
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking. -- Sivananda
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you. -- Robert Kiyosaki
You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane. -- Glenn Gould
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way. -- Erwin McManus
Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record. -- Scott Hutchison
In my caterpillar experience, a man's weakness always lies in their past, where all their dirty laundry is buried," he sighs cheeringly. -- Cameron Jace
I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement. -- August Spies
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions. -- David Hume
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. -- Elif Safak
...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. -- Jamaica Kincaid
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. -- Umberto Eco
O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing. -- James Russell Lowell
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent. -- Henry Spencer
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before". -- Deepak Chopra
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments. -- Dana Spiotta
The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends. -- Deepak Chopra
We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all. -- Gerald Jampolsky
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either. -- Mike Tyson
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. -- Denis Waitley
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present. -- Russell Targ
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. -- Harry S. Truman
The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute. -- George Harrison
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative. -- Paul Arden
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world. -- Terence McKenna
I wonâ??t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.â? â??From all indications, youâ??ve acquired enough for ten men. -- Lisa Kleypas
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it. -- Steve Berry
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. -- Mark Zandi
Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month. -- Leslye Headland
By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. -- Thomas Hobbes
Why couldn't Sam really be a boy my age, with no more experience than I had? No past lives, past loves.Why couldn't he be only for me?" -- Jodi Meadows
If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there. -- Myles Munroe
Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise. -- Miley Cyrus
Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses."? -- Mira Grant

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