Quotes About Experience

Robert Olen Butler

Spiritual experiences are described as 'selfless,' 'timeless,' 'placeless,' 'thing-less' and 'higher,' ... they are nonverbal and so difficult to talk about — and, if talked about, confuse the listeners and sometimes even put them off.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

According to the majority view of intelligence researchers, the core of intelligence is 'the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience'.

Teorin om arv via miljö ger oss en ny modell för hur vi ska se på erfarenheter; vi varseblir, tolkar, väljer, modifierar och skapar aktivt erfarenheter som korrelerar med våra genetiska anlag.

Expertise is achieved only after working hard on hard problems.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

Everything that was to happen had happened and everything that was to be seen had gone. It was now one of those moments when nothing remains but an opening in the sky and a story—and maybe something of a poem. Anyway, as you possibly remember, there are these lines in front of the story: And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose . . . These words are now part of the story.

Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.

You learn to tell stories by telling stories.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

I reckon the years between forty and sixty are the best a man's apt to put in. He can do dang near anything as good as he could when he was a youngster, and what he can't jump over he's smart enough to walk around.

If one wants to find out what lies beyond the frontier, the only way to do so is to go beyond it and see. On this journey one will do well to obtain both a map and a guide but he will have to travel every step by his own efforts.

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "The reward of suffering is experience." Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam.

The transformation of which I speak is nothing less than the liberating, joyful experience of increasing freedom from the power of sin's bondage.

El sentimiento de déjà vu se atribuye a menudo a un suceso de una vida pasada, pero muchas sensaciones de déjà vu son, en realidad, recuerdos de planes prenatales.

Imagínate un mundo en el que sólo hay luz. Si nunca has experimentado la oscuridad, ¿cómo podrías comprender y apreciar la luz? Es el contraste entre luz y oscuridad lo que lleva a un conocimiento más profundo.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder MIT Media Labs

but 20 years from now it will be bizarre if you walk into a store and the store doesn't know who you are.