Quotes About Experience

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

The idea of metanoia returns again and again in my life. The purpose of life is to see what you do when challenges come your way, and the value in that experience is seeing how you handle those challenges.

I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

Forget goals. Value the process.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.

All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I've worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fear this special gift of His that let's ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fear the worth of memories

I wiped the drips from my face and shook my hands free of the coldness and told Wynn how good it tasted. Wynn drank, too, as a reminder to himself that he had been right. No other water on earth tastes quite like that of a mountain stream.

Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too. She

Daniel Kahneman says ruminating on what went wrong makes evolutionary sense. Our ancestors survived by remembering the one poisonous berry they encountered and telling their friends about it. Describing the ten tasty ones didn't do much good at all. We

BARON AND I went to the Cow Palace, south of San Francisco, to see the Who perform as part of a tour package. This one was headlined by the Association.

The handbook for dropping acid then was The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Harvard professors Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner.

I BOUGHT A TICKET to see the Rolling Stones on December 4, 1965, at the 2,500-seat San Jose Civic Auditorium. It was the year of "Satisfaction.

BURNING MAN WAS not on my radar. Taking drugs twenty-four hours a day with thousands of people in the windblown desert a hundred miles outside of Reno, Nevada, was not on my bucket list, more like my fuck-it list.

Burning Man was a mash-up of Star Wars and Apocalypse Now and Disneyland and the Las Vegas Strip.

What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?

Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.

Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.