Quotes About Experience

You can never step into the same river twice; for new waters are always flowing on to you.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.

You will not discover the limits of the soul by traveling, even if you wander over every conceivable path, so deep is its story.

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The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

We never step in the same river twice.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

There's a way to break out of this bind: Don't act as though your limited experience represents universal truths. It doesn't. Force yourself to go outside your own experience by vigorously testing your assumptions.

As a negotiator, take some risk, break free from the precedent of your past experiences, challenge your assumptions, raise your aspiration level, and increase your expectations.

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, remarked: "One meets with many men who have been fine students, and have stood high in their classes, who have great knowledge of medicine but very little wisdom in application. They have mastered the science, and have failed in the understanding of the human being.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

Remember this presidential candidate can count.