Quotes About Experience

but I always had an incredibly intense sense of smell.

People with synesthesia have their senses hooked together," I started to explain. "They can hear colors or feel sounds. Yours is-well, it looks like you taste shapes.

The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it , the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

A fuck from Fred usually lasted less than a minute.

Each of us is a cosmic improbability, brought into this life and sentenced to experience it

They have convinced their customers that the entire shopping experience is an orgy of bargain hunting, and go out of their way to reinforce that image.

people make good choices in contexts in which they have experience, good information, and prompt feedback—say, choosing among ice cream flavors.

They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed, and in which feedback is slow or infrequent

As I have learned over the years, and will discuss further in subsequent chapters, the reluctance to experiment, test, evaluate, and learn that I experienced at General Motors is all too common.

So, we experience life in terms of changes, we feel diminishing sensitivity to both gains and losses, and losses sting more than equivalently-sized gains feel good.

Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, "is the triumph of hope over experience.")

Not all urinals are fun and games, though. Take the "Piss Screen" (yes, that's the name), also from Germany. It is a game, but one with a serious message: Don't drink and drive. Billed as "an interactive experience—not to be mistaken for the Wii," the Piss Screen is actually a pressure-sensitive inlay set in urinals that simulates what it's like to hit the road after a few drinks.

Generally, the higher the stakes, the less often we are able to practice.

No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.

No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed." ? Richard Halliburton

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

The thing about going abroad is that it's quite far away.