Quotes About Experiences

Ester asked why people are sad. That's simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.

All successful writers use resonance to enhance their stories by drawing power from stories that came before, by resonating with their readers' experiences, and by resonating within their own works.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

La Caravelle, La Grenouille, Orsini's. What dining experiences with this family. And who knew from palate cleansers? At Lutèce, Lulu insisted he taste escargot.

Dicen que cuando una es feliz, se queda sin historias que contar

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely gone unheard, unacknowledged, and unrewarded. Without their perspectives, we are presented with an incomplete and incongruent story that is at best a disservice to the historical record and at worst a means of maintaining an unjust status quo.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

We're not giving a hypothetical education. Business education is an invaluable education. But what you need in addition to make the education as valuable and meaningful as it can be are these hands-on experiences.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

If Poe haunted her grave at night as tradition asserts, the nature of his experiences in a dark cemetery with the sound of the night wind through the funereal gratings and tall grave grasses must have been searing to the soul of one who was scarcely more than a boy.

I have been a live girlfriend to twenty one bachelors and a vengeful ex- girlfriend to another three men keen to return to bachelorhood.

Our experiences are painful and sometimes annihilating, and if we have the strength to crawl out of and excavate that wreckage, we have to ask ourselves how to describe the truth of it.

And I'd learned that maybe that's what life was all about, one thing after another. One small moment. Good or bad.

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.