Of Experience Quotes
Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.
I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.
I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.
I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.