Experience Quotes - Page 11

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  A. R. Ammons

  Opinion, Direct

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• I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with itshard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it--the Bovary syndrome.

  Angela Carter

  Reality, Echoes, Light

  Angela Carter (2016). “Fireworks”, p.54, Random House

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  John Locke

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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• Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Regret, Failure, Past

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2014

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• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Dark, Men, Order

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• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Photography

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

  Liam Payne

  Inspirational, Life, Lessons

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• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Success, Fear

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Inspirational, Truth, Moving

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

  Al Neuharth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspirational, Leadership, Attitude

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• Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Children, Positive Thinking

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

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• I think we are a product of all our experiences.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, Economy, Products

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• All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

  Philip Sidney

  Want, Lips

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.366, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Mean, Phrases

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.683, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Deep experience is never peaceful.

  Henry James

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.6871, Delphi Classics

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• Every moment is an experience.

  Jake Roberts

  Spiritual, Moments

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Art, Fingers

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

  John Keats

  Errors, Form

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• By seeking and blundering we learn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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