Quotes About Experience

There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys.

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the doorknob or the telephone rings or feelings of all kinds arise. The

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

A través de la meditación desarrollamos una lealtad hacia nosotros mismos, que se traduce inmediatamente en lealtad a la propia experiencia vital.

Wisdom is a fluid process, not something concrete that can be added up or measured. The warrior-bodhisattva trains with the attitude that everything is a dream. Life is a dream; death is a dream; waking is a dream; sleeping is a dream. This dream is the direct immediacy of our experience. Trying to hold on to any of it by buying our story line only blocks our wisdom.