Quotes About Experience

Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.

This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature my life has wound itself around. I am telling it, so this story is also about me.

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.

That's the only hitch in learning: it's humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that's a long way around saying that it's crazy to do things just to prove you can do 'em. The more you learn, the more you'll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.

There are no old movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes.

For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could feel nothing worth writing except: 'an exceedingly grand apartment which I spoil by the excess of irritation and agitation I carry with me everywhere...

You are as old as the woman you are feeling.

My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

A year from now, you won't remember why you stayed home, but you never forget a motorcycle trip.

It was the kind of trip, sooner or later, you have to make. Especially if you are a motorcyclist and always looking for a good reason to travel. Or in my case even a fairly mediocre reason of practically no discernable consequence or socially redeeming value.

All military services have long ago learned that the officer who has given an order goes out and sees for himself whether it has been carried out. At the least he sends one of his own aides—he never relies on what he is told by the subordinate to whom the order was given. Not that he distrusts the subordinate; he has learned from experience to distrust communications.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Both as unique event and as linked to others, an experience is thus more than a naked wish or a casual perception; it is an organization of passionate demands, persistent ways of seeing, and objective realities that will not be denied.

What does it feel like to be a frog perceiving the world

Como si se tratara de un folleto turístico: un único objetivo se presenta como aventura. Para el folleto, la aventura será un fuego de campamento -para mí lo será el agua que corre al borde de la acera, la superficie suave y lisa de la crema de zapatos en una lata nueva, la cama recién cambiada, una persona anciana aún curiosa.

Als das Kind Kind war, erwachte es einmal in einem fremden Bett und jetzt immer wieder, erschienen ihm viele Menschen schön und jetzt nur noch im Glücksfall

Oler el pan, la ginebra, plegar el papel… esa es la salvación.

Él piensa sobre sí mismo como si se tratara de otro; piensa sobre lo que le sucede, cuando sucede, como si ya hace mucho tiempo le hubiera sucedido a otro; y, a veces, piensa sobre uno al que ya hace mucho tiempo le sucedió algo como si fuera uno al que todavía le ha de suceder algo. Una vez él se quedó ciego.

We did not collect many souvenirs, for our own skin was the best souvenir we could think of that day.34 Signaller Ron Buckell, 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, CEF

a foreigner often feels most foreign while witnessing the early education of another culture.

to see the real thing in the right place - it was special. It left a very important mark in my memory.