Quotes About Experience

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

Words described real experiences, and their curves and lines left a mental trail for me to follow by sense memory, whereas numbers threw curves at me and stonewalled me with their lines, barring me from understanding them, where they came from, and where they went. Math did not describe anything to me; if people themselves were often disconnected parts—sometimes one, sometimes many—how could I hope to quantify the rest of the world? Discrete amounts had little meaning for me.

Other sounds, though quiet, would be painful to me and make me see colors, after which I would fight a metallic taste in my mouth.

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away — it's just like a really long, bad cold.

The poet William Butler Yeats said, "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

knowledge is for the mind and experience is for the body.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place.

You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

Life is a road movie whose destination is death. Direct your own instead of watching others.

It's not the journey or the arrival but the return that often becomes the most revelatory

the currency of the future will be memory

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

In school, you get the lesson and then take the test; in parenting, you take the test and then get the lesson.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders- and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.

There are no ordinary feelings just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked-over cans of paint. Are feelings ever succinct? The haiku is quick but its ripples to the horizon go.

One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.