Quotes About Experience

Kids growing up in today's generation are constantly documenting their experience. It's different—how does that change their sense of self when everything becomes a story that you are telling?

we start with the basic idea that consciousness is not an entity—it is a process.

Consciousness evolves on three distinctly different levels. The first is the level of awareness. The second level is the experience of the different selves, subpersonalities, or energy patterns. The third level is the development of an aware ego.

There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. This may very well describe why we write memoir, for it is often in the delayed reaction, long after the actual living, that we can fully savor the fruits of our experience. [Foreword of Shimmering Images by Lisa Dale Norton]

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

Don't you want to tell the story yourself?' I asked my father one snowy, bright autumn Sunday. 'Ach. Who wants to hear a leaf tell the story of the wind?

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

The studios seem to think people go to the cinema to listen. They don't. They go to watch.

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

The felicities one is the one who learns by the tribulation of others and does not learn through his tribulation.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

The subjective texture of our conscious mental experiences—the feeling of pain, the experience of sound, the awareness of color—is different from anything that is simply physical. If the world were only made of matter these subjective aspects of consciousness would not exist. But they do exist! So there must be more to the world than matter.

Przecie? nie piszemy historii. Piszemy o pami?taniu.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Don't waste you youth by growing up !

The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

I've spent my life writing and now I'm writing about my life." HANNAH COLLINS - AUTHOR

Your great spirits are mere Jack-a-lanterns in the brain, they dance about, shine and make vagaries—while those who possess happiness, soberly and quietly enjoy their treasure.

I was like some daft child who burns himself once and after that is willing to shiver in the darkness rather than make a fire.