Quotes About Experience

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diversity is not possible in the homogeneous environment of Vulcan. We can preach diversity, but we cannot experience it if we reject that which is diverse. Logic is linear, Ensign. Life is not.

Everybody has a scar...

I also needed to educate myself to North Carolina

But he had a story. I guess everybody did. People walked around with this thick dark film sticking to them and until you scratched it, you had no idea.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

Beautiful makes you come back for more. It makes you ask questions. It's vast, unknowable, and magnificent. That's part of its power. It makes you think about the experience it's giving you. That's when I knew what I wanted. I've been chasing it ever since.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

I like the feeling of being about to confront an experience and resolve it as art. —Eudora Welty

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Schools need stability, adequate resources, well-prepared and experienced educators, community support, and a clear vision of what good education is.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.