Quotes About Experience

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.

Nothing is ever behind us.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.