Experience Quotes

Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it's gone you'll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that's enough.

~ Nikki Rowe

The Lord’s holy fire lit my path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Destiny is the established end of someone while vision remarks the photos of that predestined end, though not yet fulfilled. The insight of an unexperienced destiny can be discovered. That is through visions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.

~ Richard Diaz

Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles.

~ Richie Norton

There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

~ John Ridley

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary office job was a betrayal of that life, and I had to pursue that life at all costs. Management consulting, law school, med school, those were fine for other people — I didn’t judge! — but I was an artist. I was super special. I was sparkly. I would walk another path.And I would walk it alone. That was another thing I knew about being an artist: You didn’t need other people. Other people were a distraction. My little chrysalis of genius was going to seat one and one only.

~ Lev Grossman

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will - or that the cloud of online people is a person; if they pretend there is nothing special about the perspective of the individual - then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic. Humans are free. We can commmit suicide for the benefit of a Singularity. We can engineer our genes to better support an imaginary hive mind. We can make culture and journalism into second-rate activities and spend centuries remixing the detritus of the 1960s and other eras from before individual creativity went out of fashion. Or we can believe in ourselves. By chance, it might turn out we are real.

~ Jaron Lanier

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

~ John Geddes

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

~ Richie Norton

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?

~ T.f. Hodge

I have been where you are now. I have felt the fears and resolved them. I have had the doubts and concerns and found the way forward.Lift up your head, and step ahead...

~ Moutasem Algharati

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

~ Oscar Wilde

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.

~ Germany Kent

We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.

~ Natasha Tsakos

The future cannot be controlled, only experienced.

~ John Izzo

Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It’s strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters.

~ Pawan Mishra

Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life...

~ Sanhita Baruah

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries-not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conception only as cultural posits. The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of experience.

~ Willard Van Orman Quine

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

~ Haruki Murakami

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.

~ Toba Beta

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about. If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.

~ Sadhguru

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?

~ Lorna Jackie Wilson

Believing isn't a choice... belief is an involuntary response to something you've learned or experienced.

~ Neil Carter

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

~ Cameron Conaway

If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.

~ Cathy Caruth

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a serious novel.

~ Roman Payne

I am fully conscious that, not being a literary man , certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably blame me; alleging that I am not a man of letters. Foolish folks! do they not know that I might retort as Marius did to the Roman Patricians by saying: That they, who deck themselves out in the labours of others will not allow me my own. They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words; and experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci