Best Common Experience Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

“The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.”

Humans Wealth Common Cutting Penalties Fellowship Birthright Outlaw Affluence Membership Human Family Common Experience

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.”

Ifs Way Character Universe Interesting Common Stage Scales One Way Common Experience

Author:Shane Black

“My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.”

Common Modern Fields Findings Warm Introducing Common Experience Modern Education

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”

“The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.”

Needs Humans Common Human Nature Universal Bases Guilt Variety Helplessness Depravity Common Experience

Author:William Morley Punshon

“I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.”

People Belief Common Havens Let Me Let Me Down Common Experience

Author:Kevin Costner

“There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.”

Men Mind Doe Moments Turns Common Teach Produce Wine Faults Stranger Contrary Sober Duality Drunkenness Intemperance Common Experience

Author:Joseph Addison

“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Humans Culture Common Virtue Human Nature Flower Goodness Fruit Excited Seeds Lovely Pleasant Soil Yield Thrust Benevolence Ingenuity Common Experience

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.”

Mind Memories Common Crowded Common Experience

Author:Sadie Jones

“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.”

People Persons Doe Stills Two Form Reading Understanding Community Common Novel Approach Rounds Acquire Association Life Time Common Experience

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?”

People Two Common Wine Drinking Bottles Bottles Of Wine Common Experience

Author:Jamie Goode

“In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great.”

Has Beens Able Christian Sports Common Struggle Study Share Example Athlete Lakes Ministry Teammate Bible Study Placid Common Experience Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.”

Firsts Problem Form Common Pieces Produce Aspect Rounds Solve Circles Endless Just One One Piece Common Experience

Author:Christopher Alexander

“We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.”

“We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.”

“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Soul Spirit Humanity Common Possibility Planets Development Adults Blow Free Will Mature Common Experience

Author:Ken Wilber

“I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.”

Thinking Firsts Together Lasts Common Special Theater Phones Last Place Common Experience

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.”

Ifs Thinking Able Language Term Common Situation Events Evidence Visuals Introspection Scientific Evidence Common Experience Visual Images

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“...reality, the name we give to the common experience.”

Giving Reality Names Common Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Common Experience

Book:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.”

Past Common Sky Missing Doctors Significant Locals Snow Weather Factors Boots Vague Gloomy February Trousers Crunch Cuffs Common Experience Overcast

Book:The feast of love

Source: The feast of love

“I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.”

Knows Common Miserable Common Experience

Book:The letters of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The letters of Evelyn Waugh

“Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.”

Matter Mother Lost Walks Forget Common Mystery Late Disappear Abandonment Common Experience Lost In Thought

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.”

People Mean Different Ends Matter Care Together Common Convinced Our Family Drag Coasters Tilt Common Experience

Book:Full Tilt

Source: Full Tilt

“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.”

Source: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society

“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Values Change Common Gold Checks Fund Currency Reserves Autism Insufficient Shared Experiences Common Experience

Book:A Night of Serious Drinking

Source: A Night of Serious Drinking

“All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.”

People Spiritual Social Justice Common Class Materials Diversity Ordinary Advantage Pressure Social Justice Depth Intensity Epic Handicaps Social Pressure Common Experience

Book:Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

Source: Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

“Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.”

Has Beens Together Common Golf Fats Scratches Transcendence Astronaut Golfers Explorers Camaraderie Common Experience

Book:Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

Source: Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

“The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.”

People Children Matter School Sports Common Football Built Our Children Everyday Tennis Britain Phenomenon Urban Uncles Cricket Common Experience

Author:Arthur Hopcraft

“...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.”

Art Pain Goal Common Effort Vision Art Is Assuming Confusion Unhappiness Coherence Common Experience

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.”

Problem Humanity Challenges Decision Common Mistake Common Experience

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their common humanity is revealed. We are reminded that we're joined together by our pursuit of a life that's productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that's where progress begins.”

“Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.”

Want Common Fields Musician Capable Jazz Musical Wander Landscape Discovering Traveler Improvising Common Experience

Author:Gary Burton

“For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.”

Knows Believe Common Our Lives Propositions Common Experience

Author:James W. Sire

“I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.”

“As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.”

Ifs Writing Humans Song Human Beings Common Like You Experience Nails Common Experience

Author:Richard Thompson

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