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“A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

“I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.”

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Author:Chuck Close

“There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.”

World Moments Feelings Home Winning Player Connections Balls Hug Plates Up And Down Shared Experiences Ball Players Home Plate Shared Moments

Author:Peter Guber

“There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.”

People Ifs Might Belief Community Ability Powerful Groups Convince Skeptical Disbelief Really Powerful Shared Experiences Ability To Change

Book:The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

“So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.”

“I do believe it's possible to play a lot without overplaying. It's when a musician becomes too self-centred that it becomes problematic. You need to be aware of how what you're doing is affecting everyone else, and that's something young musicians often forget. Playing in a band is a shared experience. It's about what everyone is doing together.”

Needs Believe Self Play Together Young Forget Band Musician Shared Experiences

Author:Robben Ford

“People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.”

“You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.”

Knows Persons Lasts Joy Love Is Sadness Share Being In Love Finding Love Shared Experiences

Author:Stan Barstow

“Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.”

Action Used Share Gains Joints Shared Experiences

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.”

Way Believe Art Important Ideas Stories Home Form I Believe Theatre Screens Innocent Hopeful Joyful Savages Great American Pastime Shared Experiences Movie Theatre

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.”

Years May Culture Father Speak Levels Groups Fields Building Son Experience Playing Fields Father And Son Building Up Personal History Shared Experiences Level Playing Field

Author:John Thorn

“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.”

School Culture High School American Culture Shared Experiences

Author:Douglas Coupland

“We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.”

Knows Needs Subjects Our Family Shared Experiences

Book:Player One

Source: Player One

“Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.”

Writing Humans Made Self Stories Turns Literature Sex Audience Listening Connections Alchemy Childbirth Absorption Human Connection Self Absorption Shared Experiences

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.”

Feels Persons Body Humanity Individual Empathy Singing Shared Experiences

Author:Jay Griffiths