Quotes About Experience

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

An experience is something that is constructed in the mind of the perceiver. It's not something an organization owns. To map experiences, investigation into those experiences from the perspective of the individual is necessary.

Creating great experiences is not about individual touchpoint optimization but rather how touchpoints come together into a unified whole.

FIGURE 5-1. Comb existing sources for relevant evidence, group the implications on the experience people may have, and make conclusions.

Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom.

Vergeßt die Zeit, die man Geschichte nennt. Taucht ein in die Zeit der Geschichten

Haltet die Uhren an. Vergesst die Zeit. Ich will euch Geschichten erzählen.

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.

Mitch, have you ever tried fucking while stoking a furnace and running an engine?

Fucking really is one of those activities that "practice makes perfect".

It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.

There is a certain way of climbing inside of time that gives a man ownership of the world and everything in it. Like, for instance, when you hear a jukebox it plays only what you need to hear.

Never try to live decently, boy—not unless you're willing to open your life to tragedy and sadness. Live like a beast, and no event, no matter how harrowing, will ever be able to move you.

A lot of novelists start late—Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

Great books make great readers,129 and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah's, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found.

There is certainly a place for the college and the clinic, but really, do we need a Ph.D. in motherhood or a master's degree in friendship?

Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

as my great-uncle says, much of the

Expirience is the oracle of truth