Quotes on Experience

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only one way to get it. You're going to actually have to be a reader.

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?