Experience Quotes - page 11

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue. (Augusten Burroughs)
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. View quote
Peter De Vries
Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly. View quote
Sogyal Rinpoche
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. View quote
Tadao Ando
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. View quote
William Boyd
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. View quote
William Kent Krueger
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do. View quote
Shari Arison
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. View quote
Sean O`Casey
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. (Wilhelm Dilthey)
I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience. View quote
Gabrielle Union
Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. View quote
Diane Keaton
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. View quote
David Benioff
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. View quote
Ed Harris
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. View quote
Ally Condie
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television. View quote
Christine Vachon
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. (Christopher Lasch)
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. View quote
Lauren Oliver
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. View quote
Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. View quote
Denis Waitley