Quotes About Experience

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.

Of course," Lobo said. "It's not like this is my first dance, and it's not as if you've cornered the market on paranoia.

The churches delivering experiences that exceed guests' expectations are those to which people return, again and again, until they're no longer guests but full-fledged members of the church community. When a guest thinks "Wow!" it is because he or she feels affirmed and valued. The church has said, "You matter." Accepting

Yet there is a still more crucial transformation of time: it becomes an agent that does things to the one passing through it. Many a prisoner will give voice to this idea by saying, "You don't do time; time does you.

There is, first of all, the way prisons transform the human experience of time. The prison should be seen as a kind of theater in which time is forged into an instrument of torture, producing sustained bouts of fear and panic that make prisons also a weapon of terror. The

As psychologist James Hillman reminds us, "Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

As the Civil War raged, large parts of the occupation experience were passed over and forgotten as quickly as possible. The Greek authorities showed little interest in pursuing war criminals, and war crimes petered out more quickly than anywhere else in Europe, whilst over-conscientious prosecutors were buried in provincial postings.

Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it.

Like most people my age, I merely existed.

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky." (p.275)

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

But a broader—more scriptural—view of worship is about serving the poor, righting injustice, caring for those in need. When teenagers—whether they're already followers of Jesus or not—experience this kind of worship-in-action, they have an enormous opportunity to have a tangible experience of God in their lives.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn't the only reality, there's many.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Sum and Khatiwada found that youth employment is linked to lower rates of teen pregnancy and reductions in crime, particularly among young men. Simply put, "high rates of idleness among men reduce their work experience and their future earnings potential, thus making criminal activity more attractive."45

intellectuals who reject eternal truths and experience through the ages for the social engineering by supposed experts and their administrative state—which claim to use data, science, and empiricism to analyze, manage, and control society.