Quotes About Experience

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

Time is a landscape that stretches across all things. We're the ones who move across it.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

NEVER start sketching screens and then try to reverse-engineer a CM from them. This is a rookie mistake that can get you ejected from the Jedi academy.

Of course, a first-time computer user cannot map what they see on a screen to a prior digital experience. However, their cognitive processing of any digital artifact will still be based on natural language. Linguistically associating physical-world metaphors to on-screen actions and objects allows them to participate in a human-to-computer interaction.

And your new employers?" asked the don. "Every bed has lice," said Keller. "Only the spoon," replied the don, "knows the pot's sorrows.

la vida dura lo que se tarda en pasar junto a una ventana.

life was a journey best taken without aid of a map.

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

I don't need to try it. I tried it once, and I liked it very much. - Chiara

Natalie and Safia had never gone to L.L.Bean. 57 THE WHITE

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

Language evolves in such a way that sounds correspond with … the personal, intuitive experience of the listener.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray' – onto the same page, and then call it 'vocabulary.' In a conversation, the language is always fluid, moving, and you have to move with it. You walk and talk and see where the words come from, and where they should go. It was in this way that I learned to count like a Viking.

If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven't, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and lived—and of many that you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it.

Pain was a part of so many good things - giving birth, writing a poem, asking forgiveness, even saying I love you. Complete freedom from pain meant separation from life.

In the narrow application of logic to limited problems some degree of objectivity is perhaps possible. But in the broil of the wider human experience, in deciding what is good and true and beautiful and worth living for in this world, there is so much sheer humanness at work (and there should be, that the claim of cool, rational objectivity is almost laughable.

We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories