Experience Quotes - Page 4

We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.