Quotes About Experience

academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life's vicissitudes bring.

La mayor parte de las veces no podemos dictar qué emociones vamos a sentir, cuándo vamos a sentirlas ni con qué fuerza.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.

Que si está bien no ser virgen, sí. La mayoría de la gente no lo es, Min. Para empezar, por eso existe la gente.

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says. She walks down the streets and the storefronts look the same, even as we linger on their flickering reflections. The cars move quickly, slowly, quickly down the block. She gets coffee and says it tastes different, quitely, to herself.

After a certain age you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

But for Aristotle the meaning was hidden in the particulars of experience. The scope of his work was itself witness to his belief in the unity of experience and his confidence that it could somehow be encompassed by the human mind. And so he confirms his axiom that the actuality of thought is life.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact. with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again.

Nu te gândi la muzic?.Trebuie doar s? o simÈ›i .Las-o s? se scurg? peste tine ca apa m?rii,fara a încerca s? o înÈ›elegi .

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see al the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...

Esses sentimentos são novos para você. Nem tudo tem que ser... descrito em palavras.

If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone.

It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

On average, at least 95 percent of what you need to know you learn on the job. This is true for doctors, lawyers, nurses, investment bankers, and everyone else.