Experience Quotes - Page 20

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.

Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.