Experience Quotes - page 34

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. (Norton Juster)
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? View quote
Otto Rank
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. View quote
Pema Chodron
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. View quote
Peter Straub
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings. View quote
Reza Aslan
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience. View quote
Rachel Kushner
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards. View quote
Rick Riordan
I can't believe Sadie's going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must've really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind. View quote
Rick Riordan
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more. View quote
Rick Riordan
I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience. (Richard Neutra)
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. View quote
Robert Greene
The experience of the democratic countries with the most advanced economies also tells us that no single pattern, or even a dominant one, has emerged; and what has emerged is a product of the special characteristics and the unique history of each country. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience. View quote
Robert Ludlum
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. View quote
Robert McKee
Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not. View quote
Rhonda Byrne
Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts. View quote
Rhonda Byrne
Because of my experience with the Holocaust, I don't like to lose friends. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. View quote
Sam Shepard
Art is an artificial organization of experience. (Sara Maitland)
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. View quote
Sophia Bush
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. View quote
Stuart Wilde