Quotes About Experience

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

If you asked Neil today, he would tell you his furlough was in 3-D: dates, delirium, and disaster. I provided the dates, the Greenville girls provided the delirium, and Allie, well, she provided the disaster.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

The ordinary is immune to understanding because it cannot be placed outside human experience for examination.

So the real answer to any fundamental question is experience itself.

I had spent the previous summer and lunch hours during the school year working in my uncle Earl Edmund Sweet's drugstore soda fountain in Oak Park. That was where I learned that you could influence people with a smile and enthusiasm and sell them a sundae when what they'd come for was a cup of coffee.

you create your brain from the input you get.

Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality

Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Sueño que estoy jugando al póker. Nunca he jugado al póker, así que por supuesto pierdo.

Hay algo que he aprendido en todos estos años: puedes dormir en cualquier parte pero no puedes despertarte en cualquier parte.

Los niños no tiene nada de mágico, la mayoría de las veces, son la misma mierda en dimensiones reducidas

Es curioso comprobar cómo se echan de menos sensaciones que no son buenas, pero a las que uno se ha acostumbrado

when you enter one of the world's great forests, you go in one side and you come out somewhere different. Sometimes, you go in and come out and you're different.

The old adage that 'there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing' is certainly true. Other

The rape of "ladies" was strictly taboo, but this protection did not apply to women and girls without social standing.) The fear of rape, as well as the actual experience, gave a unique twist to women's experience of the Revolutionary War.