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I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through. -- Margaret Whiting
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. -- Jack Nicklaus
It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. -- Mike Thompson
Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100. -- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. -- John Kricfalusi
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. -- Maurice Chevalier
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. -- Stirling Moss
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. -- Jack Nicklaus
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times. -- Seth Godin
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus. -- Patrick Fabian
Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well. -- T. E. Lawrence
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. -- George Sarton
I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are. -- Tracy Chevalier
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later. -- Ida Rolf
It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what. -- Carol Bartz
I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world. -- Maynard Webb
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. -- Edward Abbey
Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through an advanced technology relationship with KoSa and a strong commitment to our customers. -- Guler Sabanci
I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos. -- Denis Lavant
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks. -- Geraldo Rivera
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks -- Geraldo Rivera
I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together. -- Lester Holt
No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport. -- Emanuel Steward
Matthew Davidson is blessed with a God-given, born-in-the-bone, talent. His musicianship is far beyond his age. When I play with Matthew, it's like playing with a musician with many years of experience. Always a perfect gentleman, Matthew's personality shines through in every performance. He obviously loves what he is doing! -- Joe Osborn
In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved. -- Charles E. Wilson
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. -- Roger McGuinn
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again. -- James Dyson
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer. -- Steven Chu
The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making. -- Tyra Banks
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. -- Denis Waitley
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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses. -- John Updike
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. -- Donnie Yen
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. -- Elvis Costello
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me. -- Graham Swift
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. -- Fred F. Fielding
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience. -- Bruce Babbitt
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life. -- Alan Lightman
What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience. -- James P. Carse
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. -- John George Nicolay
A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience. -- Michael Broadbent
God has the experience that comes from billions of years. -- James Cook
I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare. -- Lauren Hutton
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years. -- Diana Nyad
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. -- Tim LaHaye
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible. -- Hans Rosling
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. -- J. L. Carr
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. -- Harry Caray
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more. -- Paul Dourish
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. -- Jeanette Winterson
So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life. -- Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. -- Max Delbruck
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives. -- Paul George
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. -- Ron Wyden
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs. -- Bernie Siegel
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. -- William Morris
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. -- William Morris
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. -- Andre Maurois
Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years. -- Stephen Jay Gould
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. -- David Crystal
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration." -- Bob Dylan
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
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. -- John Lurie
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. -- Sara Paretsky
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. -- Vita Sackville-West
Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience. -- Donald Trump
Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me. -- Rajeev Shukla
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins. -- Arjuna Ardagh
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. -- E. L. James
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. -- Chaka Fattah
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. -- Haruki Murakami
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. -- Wendell Berry
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years. -- Guy Kawasaki
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case. -- Janet Evanovich
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch. -- Yoko Ono
I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience. -- Jessica Sanchez
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
We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience. -- Ann Veneman
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. -- Annette Funicello
After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow. -- Sy Safransky
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now. -- Edmund White
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? -- Lois Lowry
I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live. -- Jerri Nielsen
I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth. -- Narendra Modi
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016. -- Guan Tianlang
I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school. -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that. -- Stephen Curry
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. -- George Mason
There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years. -- Gordon Getty
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
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? -- Zelda Fitzgerald
I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience. -- Michael Hersch
Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you. -- Thabo Mbeki
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope. -- Margaret Deland
I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs. -- Bernie Sanders
In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it. -- John Madden
I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. -- Elif Batuman
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. -- Karen Thompson Walker
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. -- Kit Bond
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. -- Kit Bond
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win. -- Edward Teller
I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player. -- Novak Djokovic
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager. -- Kurtis Blow
If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing. -- Di Morrissey
I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state. -- Hillary Clinton
General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience. -- James Mattis
I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A. -- Frank Quattrone
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. -- Siobhan Davies
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times. -- Trevanian
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. -- Bette Davis

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