Of Experience Quotes

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Asking “Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? “ opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.

Suffering brings experience.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.