Quotes About Experience

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Virtual reality is going to revolutionize the world—it's not a question of if, but when.

There are also other factors that make a person attractive to us, which have to do with what we sense we can experience with them, and how think they can enhance the quality of our life. We may feel that they have the capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment, or joy into our life.

Wrinkles? They just tell the story of your life

I've known a lot of cops like him over the years. Veterans, usually. Older. They have experience, but they lack the humanity that would otherwise define them as good cops. The more they see, the less they feel. The less they care. They become cynical and bitter and apathetic. They give all cops a bad rap.

this single memory, coupled with the others of Mother masturbating on me early in the mornings, or in front of me when I was small, was ample.

How much am I willing to endure in order to remember? Do I truly want to be empowered by memory or language?

even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.

You have underwear. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on? Nah. Just rubbed it against my face.

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.

She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.

Riding an elephant isn't as exotic or special as it looks on websites about jungles.

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

Nu avea niciun sens s? se simt? furios. Trebuie s? iei viaÈ›a aÈ™a cum e: stupid?, minunat?, inteligent?, rea, nebuneasc? È™i foarte, foarte pl?cut?. Trebuie s? accepÈ›i sl?biciunile oamenilor ca pe un dat, s? le iei în calcul È™i s? le foloseÈ™ti pentru cauza nobil?.

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

It is nevertheless my considered opinion that an experience often changes in physiognomy according to the capacity a person has for experiencing.

Yes, I am unalterably convinced that the translation of an experience into words depends more upon the temperament of the man who has lived through it than upon its actual content.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

A man of imagination has an advantage over other people, in that an actual experience is almost always less intense than his expectations of it.

An actual misfortune is almost always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

No, my fatalism is yet not as primitive as that. It is rather the logical outcome of unfortunate experiences with the consistent application of intelligence.

if I could just have twenty seconds alone with younger, stupider me . . . But there are some mistakes you never get to take back. And there are some experiences there is no returning from.