Quotes About Experience

It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they talk to us through our senses. What Debra's people are building--it's hive-mind [stuff:]. Directly implanting thoughts! Jesus! It's not an experience, it's brainwashing!

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

The plural of anecdote isn't fact.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it.

It was great, wasn't it—because it was ours.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

The amount of testimony from those who have experienced the supernatural, whose lives have been changed for the better, and/or who have contributed good to society over the last two thousand years within a Christian context—such accumulating testimony dramatically outweighs what has been experienced and accomplished by any other ideology and dramatically outweighs the evils done in the name of Christ as well.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.

Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

Ah, being a parent is so much harder than it looks. And just because you are old, does not mean that you do not make mistakes. So that is the story of the Great Jailbreak of Gormincrag.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience [which] inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.

She wonders if memory is little more than this: a series of erasure and perfected selections.

What more do you need? Poetry? Poetry is in the living. Little Sister, in the dreaming. Nobody in the world can teach you that.

Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.

Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.

I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand.

If you're our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?

Profii de aici le-au vazut pe toate. Noi ne percepem ca individualitati distincte, dar in ochii lor nu suntem decat o masa de nevoi adolescentine." – Gates Medkowski

In their articles and on the air, political journalists loved including local color (meat on a stick at the state fair, polka bands, caucuses held in a gun shop or grain elevator) in inverse proportions to how much they'd disdain such spectacles in their actual lives, off the job. A reporter had once told me that if she was getting dinner on her own on the road, she would choose a restaurant by googling the zip code and kale salad.

Well, I said, I once heard a smart person point out that it's hard to determine where the dividing line is between cheesiness and acceptable emotional extravagance. He grinned again. I didn't tell you at the time, but I know exactly where that line is. When it's happening to other people, it's cheesy. When it's happening to you, it's wonderful.