Quotes About Experience

I've never been out four days. You've never been dead before.

I've never been out four days." "You've never been dead before.

Every dollar has a story to tell," Vonn Carp in Dollarapalooza.

I should have lived a different story, or lived the same story differently. I should have better told you, should have said: I have seen you, seen you and loved you because of what I have seen.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

All experience is subjective.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN

Remembering a narrative alters it.

Our marketing strategy is driven by the customer experience, not by "growth hawking." We believe companies should be about fewer games, fewer hoops, and more value. We feel like open content speaks to that.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I remember hearing Charlie Bright describe his first day as a teacher as being painfully awkward. "The kids were new to 3rd grade. I was new to any grade," he said. "It was kind of like being on a first date.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

The official, standard history of rock 'n' roll is true, but it's not the whole truth. It's not the truth at all. It's a constructed story that has been disseminated so comprehensively that people believe it, but it's not true to their experience, and it may even deform or suppress their experience.

Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.