Experience Quotes - Page 22

• We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

  T. S. Eliot

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Meaningful, Business, Good Life

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.20, Penguin

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• The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Business, Opportunity

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• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Summer, College

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• Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

  Joseph Story

  Wisdom, Materials, Humans

  "Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story".

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• Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Lasts, Emotion

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• There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Errors, Trial And Error

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• Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Tuning, Dimensions

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• As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.36, New World Library

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

  Russell Means

  Happened, Ifs

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

  Ellen Langer

  Thinking, Artist, Hands

  Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press

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• Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

  William S. Knudsen

  Knowing, Growth

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• I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

  Margaret Whiting

  Years, Needed, Stills

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• Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

  Douglas Adams

  Way, Perceive, Universe

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Want, Teach

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

  Vern Law

  Funny, Teacher, Giving

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• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, School, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.220, Penguin

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• The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Pain

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, October 29, 1996.

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• We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Teach

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

  John Updike

  Life, Doe, Literature

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Lying, Men

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Stories, Way

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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