Quotes About Experience

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

I have stories to tell. I have no theories, no advice, just stories.

Each time I begin writing a new book I feel as though I'm learning to write all over again.

As a writer, you have to re-earn your chops with every new book

You can't just shove the past aside. It stays with you, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

A good novel is an intensely personal rendezvous between reader and writer.

There's no such thing as a dull life. Every life is a saga.

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

Comedy works best when an audience is not only prepared to laugh, but anxious to participate in a shared social experience. For release humor to work, the audience must be clued to every plot from the beginning. If the audience and the actor don't know what's behind the door, that's mystery. If the audience knows, but someone else doesn't, that's release comedy.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Real life doesn't skip the rough stuff.

The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.