M Quotes
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“My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.”
“My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.”
“My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.”
“My experience in India had a profound impact on me, shaping my entire life in many ways. I begin the book in 1969 in the Peace Corps and close it with a return to my India family in 2003. The novelist Peggy Payne (Sister India) says in a blurb on the back cover, "India sojourns, vividly recounted, are the bookends for the story of one man's profound and inspiring change.”
Source: The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife
“My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.”
“My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.”
“My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.”
“My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.”
“My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.”
“My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.”
“My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.”
“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.”
“My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.”
“My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.”
“My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.”
Source: Tools for dreamers: strategies for creativity and the structure of innovation
“My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche. It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”
“My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.”
“My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.”
Source: Man and Superman
“My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.”
“My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.”
Source: Beds
“My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.”
“My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.”
“My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.”
“My experience is that the director of the FBI is particularly important to just how aggressive an investigation will be into an issue. And once you remove James Comey, it creates a vacuum at the top. And the fundamental issue will be whether or not there is support at the highest levels within the FBI to continue to conduct that investigation. That's going to be the question mark.”
“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.”
“My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.”
“My experience is the opposite.”
“My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.”
“My experience is to deal with things through humor.”
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.”
“My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.”
“My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.”
“My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born”
“My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.”
“My experience of life always includes losing the things that are mine or having them forcibly taken away and being thrown away myself. I wasn’t wanted as a child, I skipped from foster home to foster home, never staying long enough to get settled, and then I aged out of the system into homelessness. I’ve never gotten to keep anything for long—not even friends or family; death has taken all of those types of people away from me—and the worry that I’m about to lose everything I’ve gained since meeting Fox has been hanging out in the back of my head, taking up space, living rent-free.”
Source: The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
“My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.”
“My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.”
“My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.”
“My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.”
“My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.”
Source: Stepping Westward
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.”
“My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.”
“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”
Source: Address Delivered by Professor Huxley at a Meeting Held in the Town Hall, Manchester, Nov. 29th, 1887 ...
“My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!”
“My experience of working on this show, even though there is so much about sex and sexuality, and we find out a lot of facts and statistics that are very interesting, in their own right, I found that I started talking about relationships more, and the emotions, the difficulties and the challenges. So, I became far more open about that, which I think is probably an indication with the show itself.”