Quotes About Experience

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

And I have come to understand the truth of what Ansel Adams said that you don't make a photograph just with a camera but that you bring to the act all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard and the people you have loved.

I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.

Uncle Eric holding court, proud the only time he ever left Yorkshire was to kill Germans.

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.

The smell of blood. The smell of sweat. The smell of tears. The smell of Algipan. You want to smell these smells for the rest of your life.

Age does not count. It's what you know about football that matters.

I am forty years old, Joan thirty-eight. We have no children, we can't.

Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?

networks, in your brain. He remarked, "Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact . . . moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves."2

You don't have to be black, brown, red, or yellow to do good research about the experiences of people of color. You don't have to fabricate a racial/ethnic identity to be a researcher--or even an activist. Knowledge belongs to all of us. Activism belongs to all of us. Stop centering yourselves in the lived experiences of people of color. Just do the work that needs to be done.

At dawn the boy bathes, then stays awake until late afternoon, pacing and expectant, at which point the circumciser comes at him with a homemade knife. "I nursed my wound for 45 days after," one initiate said.

Everything important we learn too late.

Time does not heal all wounds. Some pain becomes part of who you are.

Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons

He wrapped his arms around her, and they stood that way for a long time. Then Kira felt his body soften, shift, change. His flesh dissolved around her into lambent light. She raised her arms over her head and spread them wide as the essence of his being curled around her in a warm, soothing display of love that she had ever only experienced with Odo. For

Because fear is the basis of all inhibitions, mastery over fear means the unblocking of whole avenues of life experience that previously had been avoided.

By experience, we know what it is to plant our faces in the floor and plead for God to accomplish the work that our best efforts in preaching cannot.

number of years a person lives has nothing to do with whether or not they've lived a full life. Eighty years is a lot of years, I guess, when compared to twenty years. But just because a person has lived a lot of years doesn't mean they've lived a full life.

Once we realize we are time, however, we experience something that sounds paradoxical when we try to express it: the now does not change (it is always now) but flows (that now never ceases to transform). While the now is immutable in the sense that it is always the same now, rather than a series of fleeting nows, nevertheless there is transformation, although experienced differently once one is the transformation rather than an observer of it.

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

In surviving the wave circumstance you learn lessons that you can use to survive the life circumstance.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know