Experience Quotes

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where this is no longer a part of our experience.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.