Quotes About Experience

Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments

is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments. Her distant past is preserved, better than preserved. Moments that occurred in Leningrad sixty-some years

In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.

We cannot truly know and understand how God speaks to us unless we have actually experienced it. Learning to discern the fingerprint of God on your own life allows you to know deep in your soul and your skin the person God calls you to be. Then be that person instead of trying to be what you aren't. You'll be much richer for the experience. So will the rest of the world.

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

Coming that close to death you get kissed.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Out of all these sources of almost forgotten oral history, I have tried to fashion a narrative of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their own words whenever possible

I quattro prigionieri, tutti i bambini, apparvero illesi; infatti quando un soldato chiese ad Ambrose Archer, di otto anni, come lo avevano trattato gli indiani, il ragazzo rispose che avrebbe "preferito restare con gli indiani se fosse stato possibile".

The greatest concentration of recorded experience and observation came out of the thirty-year span between 1860 and 1890—the period covered by this book. It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…I wish Adam and Eve had thought more about what knowledge meant. Eve saw it as a good thing, to know more. But how do you really know something? You experience it

We never fully understand what we have been told until we experience it. Learning not embedded in experience is forever crippled. Unfortunately, our present society is schooled, not educated.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

It is common to learn from experience what we already believe, then repeat the experience to prove what we believe we learned. The process was invented by religion and perfected by science.

Right is not this or that doctrine or opinion; right is rational discussion about shared experience between honorable people leading to mutual understanding and tolerance.

Life is not about control. It's not about getting. It's not about having. It's not about knowing. It's not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.

Pertama-tama, dengan mengetahui apa itu cinta, kita akan mengetahui Tuhan. Dan ketika kita mengetahui Tuhan, kita juga jadi tahu apa itu cinta. Itulah cinta, itulah Tuhan. Pengalaman, bukan penjelasan. Perjalanan, bukan tujuan. Pertanyaan, yang sungguh tidak berjodoh dengan segala jawaban.

Semua peristiwa hanyalah semata-mata peristiwa, tapi cara kita menyikapinyalah yang memberi label, kan? Entah itu diberi judul tragedi atau keberuntungan. Dia bisa melihat dirinya sebagai korban atau sebaliknya. Semoga saja dia sadar kalau dia sedang berpijak di semesta yang serbarelatif.

Tak ada yang lebih menarik daripada menyaksikan seseorang menyelam ke septic tank kotorannya sendiri.