Quotes About Experience

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

The older you get the more you live in the past

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Let's say that the average age in the audience is twenty-five years. Six hundred times twenty-five equals fifteen thousand years of human experience assembled in that darkness—well over twice the length of recorded human history of hopes, dreams, disappointments, exultation, tragedy. All focused on the same series of images and sounds, all brought there by the urge, however inchoate, to open up and experience as intensely as possible something beyond their ordinary lives.

What they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story—it's how they felt.

it often occurs that a work of art — even though incomprehensible — remains in the mind, and produces its effect years later, when people are apt to remark that it was not the same as when they first saw it, transferring to the object under discussion the chance in themselves.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Ten el valor de equivocarte. HEGEL

Você é mais desejável do que imagina, garanto. Além disso, tem a vantagem dos sobreviventes do amor: já sabe o que não quer num novo relacionamento.

Las personas aprenden por ensayo y error y tú no escapas a ese principio.

desconocidas. Existen mentes que parecen de piedra: inmóviles, monolíticas, duras, impenetrables y rígidas, donde la experiencia y el conocimiento se han solidificado de manera sustancial e irrevocable con el paso de los años. Estas mentes ya están determinadas de una vez por todas, ya no aprenden nada distinto a lo que saben, porque su procesamiento obra por acumulación y no por selección.

No me digas qué es la sabiduría, no me hables de cómo vivir bien: ¡muéstramelo!";

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Hay cosas que no están hechas para pensar, sino para vibrar con ellas

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Ivan and Willis, watching as Sadie panted, stood up, and then lay down again. "It won't be long now." Willis's eyes sparkled. He was no doubt excited, even though this was probably old hat for him.

You ask what the finest life span would be? To live until you reach wisdom.