The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso – I remember that experience so vividly.
Depression, if it’s an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
Everyone’s life experience is different.
I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn’t know how to express that.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Our ‘realities’ are make-believe – whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.
Sometimes when you’ve reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences… I’d always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
For my experience, my family. I will always be grateful for the people who brought me here.
The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. ‘Live and learn,’ we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about ‘Live and teach.’
As a black person, I’m used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up there. This experience has an effect on the way you see yourself in the world and what it means to be black in the world.
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today’s gamers.
The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is ‘it’ or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.
I think what’s important is to give space to the range of human experience.
