Quotes About Experience

I was suffering, seemingly, from some extraordinary fault in my relation to reality, something so uniquely wrong that it compelled me to perceive, at rare intervals, large blocks of otherwise perfectly normal personal experience displaced from their proper positions in Time.

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

I would suggest that subjectively experienced feelings arise, ultimately, from the interactions of various emotional systems with the fundamental brain substrates of "the self," but, as already mentioned, an in-depth discussion of that troublesome issue will be postponed until Chapter 16.

Sest elus on vist üldsegi nii, et veel tähtsam kui punkt, milleni me oma valitud teel jõuame, on tee ise, mida mööda me oleme üritanud minna --

Appropriation was once associated with unprincipled borrowing from a minority population's art or culture, or shameless imitations that pretended to be the original. Nowadays, in discussions among African Americans, it seems to refer more often to a borrowing of black experience (and most often, black pain) in which the very act of borrowing, with or without attribution, is a form of inexcusable disrespect.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Looking back at it, it seems to me that I was blown here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the autumn winds till at last it finds lodgment in some cozy fence corner. When I left school at fourteen I was as unsophisticated as a boy could be; I knew no more of the world and its strange ways than the gentle, saintly woman who taught me my prayers in the convent. Before me twentieth birthday I was on the docket of criminal court, on trial for burglary.

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.

You need not regret lost years if you have learned great things.

They just hoped to survive, and maybe to be the heroes that young men and women dream of being before they become old enough and experienced enough to realize that real glory never comes to those who seek it. They

The price of war goes on, too. Histories tend to calculate that in terms of money and casualties during the war, not in terms of what it does to those who fight and experience the wars.

IT TAKES A LOT OF LIFE EXPERIENCE TO SEE WHY SOME RELATIONSHIPS LAST AND OTHERS DO NOT. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A CRISIS TO GET AN IDEA OF A PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP. OUR BEHAVIOR IN LITTLE EVERYDAY INCIDENTS TELLS US A GREAT DEAL." —Eknath Easwaran

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us. Oscar Wilde

so every time you bring up that memory, you bring with it all the feelings and emotions you had at that time.

Everything you experience in life—both internally and externally—is the result of how you have responded to a previous event.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." —Ernest Hemingway

We are the accumulation of our past experiences. How we channel those experiences and knowledge into wisdom as we move forward is critical.

What was merely an uncomfortable experience was deemed torture by many in the public square. Spend some time in the company of ISIS or the Taliban if you want a lesson in real torture.

Mr. Donovan, I have been in this chair for over thirty years.

Excellence and achievement have a structure that can be copied. By modeling successful people, we can learn from the experience of those who have already succeeded.