Quotes About Experience

As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky.

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

That's really what all books are, isn't it? I mean, lists of secrets and things you only wish you'd done - a sort of deathbed confession where you're trying to get it all out while the lights are still on.

If it's impossible to understand how I could kick a weeping, torn-in-half cog that was gushing something that looked like tapioca pudding and whale semen on my nice shiny space suit, then you probably never kicked a car for getting a flat tire, or slapped a television remote when the batteries were getting weak, in which case you'll never understand what it means or meant to be a human.

Good books are always about everything.

And that was my day. You know what I mean.

YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

Joey threw a rock too. "Yep," he said. "You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

I have long contended that consciousness is the way information feels.

Fitzgerald's attachment to those who had shared his time and experience here on earth, his sense of identity with them, his caring---that is perhaps the final burden and beauty of these letters.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

A hedge fund is a private partnership that has a start and an end, and involves a general partner and several limited partners, each of whom brings something to the partnership. At the start, the general partner brings all the experience and limit partners bring all the money. At the end, the general partner leaves with all the money and the limited partners leave with all the experience.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Travel is a very important part of anyone's growth. There's no book in the world, no podcast, no Anthony Bourdain episode that can ever replicate that life experience.

New things have to be tried. How do you know otherwise if something's good if you don't try it?

One can show off one's courage, but when it finally turns out that the danger is not real danger, you can laugh happily and say, "I said there's nothing terrible here; you'll even like it here. Haven't we shown you interesting things?

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.