Quotes About Experience

psychology—that life is an array of constantly changing sensations, some of them pleasant, some of them unpleasant, and some of them neutral. Our unconscious response is to grasp after the pleasant and to try to resist the unpleasant, so that we are always at war with the basic transience of our experience. We cannot really come to rest with things as they arise and depart.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

Look at what they do in a lifetime," she said. "These hands lit fires, cooked, wove a thousand blankets and carpets. They helped children into the world. When you are old," Hagar said, "look at your hands, Ish, and think of what they have done, good things and bad. Hands are like faces. Every scar a story

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

who have shielded themselves from its risks—at the cost of limiting their pleasures.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Our consciousness can only give us an experience of our thinking.

known as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral: "Wesley believed that the living core of the Christian faith was revealed in Scripture, illumined by tradition, vivified in personal experience, and confirmed by reason.

To gain a fresh perspective on an old industry, it helps to listen and learn from younger people. A great way to formalize this process is to get a reverse mentor—a younger person who has less experience in your industry. (What you might see as a "lack of experience" can be viewed from a different perspective as being unburdened by assumptions, biases, and conventional wisdom.)

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life.

You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.