Quotes About Experience

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!""You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training a mere beginner.

Not how long you live, but how much you have lived, how much meaning your life has absorbed and passed on, is what matters.

It is only at a high stage of individuation, made possible at first by the painted or carved image, the written symbol, and the printed book, that true freedom-the freedom to escape from the passing moment and the present visible place, to challenge past experience or modify future action-can be achieved. To be aware only of immediate stimuli and immediate sensations is a medical indication of brain injury.

Since science opened no path into private and subjective experience, it was forced to deny either its importance or its existence.

If I dare to foresee a promising future other than that which the technocrats (the power elite) have been confidently extrapolating, it is because I have found by personal experience that it is far easier to detach oneself from the system and to make a selective use of its facilities than the promoters of the Affluent Society would have their docile subjects believe.

To dismiss as non-existent what happens to be indescribable is to equate existence with information. Can a color be described solely in terms of its mathematical determinable wave length? No matter how accurate this abstract description may be, it gives no indication of color as a subjective experience. So with pain. To deny the existence or importance of pain because it is too private to be described-is that an example of scientific objectivity?

In short, without man's cumulative capacity to give symbolic form to experience, to reflect upon it and re-fashion it and project it, the physical universe would be as empty of meaning as a handless clock: its ticking would tell nothing. The mindfulness of man makes the difference.

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

Music is like a drug; when you hear it, you have a vision. And that vision can change over time or remain the same. You know, that first time youre in love and you hear a love song and every time you think about it you have that vision of your special someone. And then two years later, after you broke up, youre at the bar. And you hear that song and you go, "Son of a bitch... Ill have a Jaeger."

Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Regret and celebration are equally important facets of aging. Throughout this book, these two aspects will appear in various guises and voices. That was the case with

the experience of aging is itself a doorway to spiritual practice, one that transcends any particular religion or faith.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human - the good, the bad, and the ugly!

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.