Quotes About Experience

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

It's more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.