Experience Quotes - Page 3

As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.