Quotes About Experience

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

So God wishes to experience. He wants to transform potential into this experience. Haisch uses the example of a game. Playing it is far more satisfying than just reading the rules.

Women may make slightly less—maybe—but the seventy-seven cents to the dollar statistic is what men and women make, on average. It isn't a comparison of the two sexes in the same jobs, with the same experience. It's comparing total earnings across all jobs, which ends up being apples to oranges in many cases.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

In most jobs, one learned from one's mistakes. Unfortunately, in our job, a single mistake usually led to a swift death, and corpses were notoriously stubborn when it came to learning from bad experiences.

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She really did believe that when all was said and done, only experience with a person could give you a sense of their spirit—their values, their dreams, their demeanor, and their sense of humor.

the longer the life-span, the more stagnant and ossified a species would become. There was something to be said for experience, but youth brought fresh blood and bold new ideas. A dose of much-needed vitality.

And you can't be told the essence of a person, anyway. That's something you have to experience

Reed and Hoyer both had the steak the major had raved about, while Allie had a Caesar salad.

It has its ups and downs!

Looking stupid is part of learning, let it happen.

In the game of chess, an experienced player may take a novice to the brink of defeat in just three moves. The fourth move can be checkmate, and the kingdom is lost.

Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?

I wanted to get it all down on paper; a record of what happened----just in case something did happen to me---- and to try and convince myself that I was not living in a state of permanent delusion. But why should you accept this story as given? It's just a story----my story. And like all stories, it isn't, in the pure sense of the word, true. It's just my version of the truth. Which means it is----and isn't----true at all.

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

And while taking oestrogen made him cry more and change his taste in movies, when testosterone came back into his body it had an equally 'sexist' set of effects. He noticed a lot of common behaviours. He became more angry, more aggressive and – yes – far more horny. Today he has been off hormones for more than two years. But the effects of his time 'transitioning' across the sexes is still with him.

All the years of education and learning, all the knowledge and experience in that head was destroyed in a moment by people who had achieved none of those things.

Devane saw Dundas hurrying to meet them and said dryly, 'Thanks Ralph. How can Barker have served in 1919 in a destroyer, and have lost a son in North Africa, and still look so young?' Beresford smiled. 'Will power and hair dye. Never fails.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.