Quotes About Experience

Life is made of these moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life.

What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on?

What if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave. What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on.

As an engineer, he finds the act of art beyond him. The idea that the object itself: canvas, wood and oil is not the point. And that instead, some intangible experience created from the suggestion -- from the intersection of materials, colors, and content has been created. Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

The only thing that can change who we are is life.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

if our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light? Dr. Trudgett

When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about, that is the only way to enjoy i

It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

Moreover, if we move in the direction of making machines which learn and whose behavior is modified by experience, we must face the fact that every degree of independence we give the machine is a degree of possible defiance of our wishes. The genie in the bottle will not willingly go back in the bottle, nor have we any reason to expect them to be well disposed to us.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.