Quotes About Experience

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

Then one day, I just let it go, and started thinking about the essay as not trying to solve a riddle of why, but as a way of understanding what was changed by my fear, and what that change revealed about my experience of seventh grade.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

Algorithms are simply incapable of encapsulating human experience, regardless of what Silicon Valley would have us believe. And once companies have taken humans out of the loop and relinquished the reins to machines, there is no telling the sort of cultural norms they will eventually propagate in the future.

Like my Kindle paper-white but no substitute for a hardcover book. JKA

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

Okay, Dumb Diary, school has taught me a few things over the years. Once, it taught me the difference between alligators and crocodiles. (Even alligators and crocodiles don't really care. Just avoid both.)

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Story was magic. Magic was story. Memory was also story, disparate events linked together in our mind to create a narrative.

History and experience should tell each and every one of us, time and time again, that having wealth and/or power as the aim in life will destroy any individual (and many other people, in some instances).

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

for how could anyone not know by now how mischievous the world could be?

Our forebears back in the the camp meeting days used to say that if people left a meeting talking about what a wonderful sermon the preacher gave or how beautifully the singers sang, the meeting had failed. But if people went home saying things like "Isn't God good? He met me tonight in such a wonderful way," it was a good meeting. There was to be no sharing the stage with the Lord.

Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.