Quotes About Experience

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.

So we come upon the radical idea that happiness is not about how many good times we've had and bummers we haven't had, but from being willing to greet life as it occurs, to meet it and respond in its gush and flow. We don't attach ourselves to the contents of life, but we celebrate the very process of being alive.

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Kur njerëzit humbasin spontanitetin, atëherë kanë filluar të plaken.

I was just 17, I did not have many illusions left, and the ones that did remain were soon to vanish.

In our evolutionary history some individuals must have been born with a greater inclination and ability to collaborate than our common ancestor with chimpanzees. These individuals were more successful and bred more offspring with those characteristics [...]. What we have evolved into now is a species for whom an experience means little if it's not shared.

It's small wonder that humans dream in myth and in art about other worlds, because we all have the experience of inhabiting one world and, as we are taught language, of walking through a door into another. Even physicists are obsessed with the idea of a multiverse. But we already live in one.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

any experience exists for itself, is structured, is the specific way it is, is one, and is definite.

You have to work [...] and rely to a certain degree on the limitation of things, often really good things are happening. Even if you had another possibility it wouldn't be better, but nonetheless you experience this limitation as a barrier. But I always think that any limitation makes your life easier.

He was all surface, written on by those who'd pass him, like a love hotel diary.

Being in love isn't irrational, he said. It only looks like that to people who have never felt it.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

And what is it with these fucking people and teenage virgins anyway? Have they ever actually shagged one? I have, more than once, and none of the encounters would appear on my list of sexual highlights.

Some things shape you for the long haul, he reflects, no matter what twists and turns your life may take.

They both looked younger than him, as well as taller, better built and undoubtedly more schooled in the noble art of punching fuck out of people. Nonetheless, younger doesn't necessarily mean faster or fitter, and Parlabane was highly schooled in the arguably less noble art of running away.

doing them – and the amazing times you had on them – ought to be punishable by death. He has never said this to anyone though, so any time he gets offered, there is an awkward moment after he declines. The person offering clearly wonders whether he or she is being judged, and Parlabane reciprocally wonders whether he is too. With

Once we are willing to accept that good anti-authoritarian intentions do not get us off the hook for the authoritarian consequences of anarchist incompetence it becomes possible to approach the whole historical experience of the revolutionary movement in a considerably less self-righteous frame of mind.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.