Quotes About Experience

The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

The words in books didn't just strengthen people's ability to think abstractly; they enriched people's experience of the physical world, the world outside the book.

What looks like instinct is hard-won skill. Those changes in the brain don't happen through passive observation. They're generated through repeated confrontations with the unexpected.

The automation of wayfinding serves to "inhibit the process of experiencing the physical world by navigation through it." 4 As

reading books chronically understimulates the senses."11

It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time.

These things have a huge impact on how music is experienced by listeners; they can make one performance profoundly moving, another dull or ridiculous or unintelligible, even though the notes are the same.

Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

services-dominant logic that argues the brand is co-created with consumers and the concept of the experience economy have shifted branding away from communications to personal interaction; from making promises to keeping them; from something run by the marketing department to an organization-wide operating principle.

How can you even think of food after what you have just witnessed?' 'It is because of what I have witnessed that I find it crossing my mind. Food is one of the principal means by which death is avoided.' - from Nicholas Meyer's "West End Horror" (dialogue tags removed for ease of reading)

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819—80

He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

There's no love like the first.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

There are too many poems about death. Death, churchyards, wormy cadavers. Death is really a small part of life, and it's not the part that you want to concentrate on, because life is life and it's full of untold particulars.

She got in her car and drove off. A lot of life is like that.

Air travel is such a strange experience. It´s such an intimate thing, to travel alongside a stranger for so many hours, to eat together, take in a film, snooze side by side. In economy I think that it´s so intimate, that like neighbours on the same landing, most of us consider that it´s better not to take the risk of ever getting to know them. In business class, there´s just enough room - as elbows don´t actually touch - to take that chance.

In that instant, I was a tiny grain of life gifted with being able to observe the inexplicable vastness of the universe, and the only thing that mattered was the excruciating beauty of being there. Of being there to experience it all.