Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
I - my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
My parents always taught me to be humble no matter what the experience, to not think I was better than anyone else.
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.
Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
I was extremely honoured and privileged to have had the opportunity to visit Oxford University. It was a great experience to share personal anecdotes from my career and my journey and to indulge in a fun interactive session with the students there.
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.
So much of our training focuses so much on the systems and how to operate the station, and not just the day-to-day life in terms of slowing down and enjoying the experience.
Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.