On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. – Hermann Ebbinghaus
If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don’t, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals. – Ilana Glazer
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. – Jacques Lacan
Give, give, give – what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. – Isabel Allende
Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage. – Jean Chatzky
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble. – Jason Statham
Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the ‘paddy wagon.’ The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. – James Comey
I’m really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year. – John Barrowman
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people. – Joe Lieberman
Sometimes I get so bold and I’m so confident about what I’m doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it’s a really liberating feeling to experience what it’s like to not care. – John Mayer
Don’t sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want. – James Altucher
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life’s outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. – George Crabbe
I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy – gunman – kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience. – James Comey
‘Faith and Will’ sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time. – Julia Cameron
I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe. – John Polkinghorne
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?! – Jonathan Ive
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way – a first-order, first-person experience – rather than filtered through the mind of another. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty. – Johnny Depp
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control. – Joyce Meyer
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that’s the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge. – J. Michael Straczynski
I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That’s got to be the most terrified I’ve ever been in my life. I don’t know if that’s saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible. – Hayden Panettiere
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there’s room for these kinds of extra excursions. – Ivan Reitman
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white. – Ilyasah Shabazz
We’ve all had that experience where we hear a song that we’ve liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it’s about, and you’re often disappointed. – Jakob Dylan
My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world. – Janet Yellen