Quotes About Experience

The nature of trauma," van der Kolk had said, "is that you have no recollection of it as a story. The nature of traumatic experience is that the brain doesn't allow a story to be created.

This is a work of nonfiction.

They aren't there for posterity. Nor for reference. I don't believe the young woman who wrote them has anything to teach me. What does she know? She hasn't lived my life.

There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.

Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relatively stable, against a backdrop of normal, everyday experience. This, of course, is one of the features of anxiety and panic that make them suck so bad.

I wasn't weak or oversensitive; I was precocious. I didn't have a deficit of strength; I had a deficit of years.

You will become clever through your mistakes. —German proverb

But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience...

In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more. 

em un mot la nature et l'experience m'appirent,apres mure reflexion,que toutes les bonnes choses de l'univers ne sont bonnes pour nous que suivont l'usage que nous en faisons,et qu'on n'en jouit qu'autant qu'on s'en sert ou qu'on les amasse pour les donner aux autres,et pas plus

una vida tan variada como pocas se verán en el mundo; que comenzó locamente y concluyó mucho mejor de lo que jamás hubiese esperado.

my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world

as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time....

So sehen wir nie die wahren Vorteile unseres Zustandes, ehe wir die entgegenstehende Nachteile erfahren haben; wir lernen den Wert der Dinge erst dann kennen, wenn wir sie verloren haben!

Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.

estas cosas suelen pasarles a los jóvenes y la reflexión sobre ellas, es, normalmente, ejercicio de la edad avanzada o de una experiencia que se paga demasiado cara.

dar oamenii nu se cunosc pe ei înÈ™iÈ™i pân? ce nu-s puÈ™i la încercare, iar curajul se dobândeÈ™te cu timpul È™i prin experien??.

yet there would always be some difference seen between five-and-twenty and two-and-forty.

Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

data science requires more than math skills: it also takes people who have a wide-ranging curiosity, and whose innovation is guided by their own experience—not just data.

There are two major streams of self-awareness: "me," which builds narratives about our past and future; and "I," which brings us into the immediate present. The "me," as we've seen, links together what we experience across time. The "I," in stark contrast, exists only in the raw experience of our immediate moment.

the abilities that distinguish the outstanding supervisors in technical fields are not technical, but rather relate to handling people.14 So to a degree, experience and expertise, like IQ, matter—but there is much more to the story when it comes to excellence.

A atenção plena desenvolve a nossa capacidade para observar a nossa experiência momento a momento de uma forma imparcial e não reativa. Praticamos o abandono dos pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular e abrimos o foco àquilo que nos vier à mente no fluxo da consciência, sem nos deixarmos perder no curso de pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular.