Accumulate Experience Quotes

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag

Sing your life! Dance your life! Heaven is not up there, it's right where you are! Run, jump, sing, dance, love, kiss, forgive, read, cook, travel, eat, fish, ride....! The only thing you should accumulate in life is EXPERIENCE! ~ Abhishek Kumar

That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible. ~ Marshall McLuhan

You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using. ~ Christopher Doyle

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI ~ Daniel H. Pink

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you? ~ Phil Stern

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer. ~ Stephen Collins

Use negative situations to gain experience ~ Sunday Adelaja

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed. ~ James Rebhorn

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. ~ James Altucher

Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. ~ Brian Kernighan

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. ~ Tim O'Brien

I am in love with life. I think it's pretty awesome when you are engaged in it. I love my family and my friends, and that to me is the biggest ... that's the love of my life are my friends and family and the experience that I get to share with them. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart. ~ Cameron Diaz

You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible. ~ Tara Stiles

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
[author's dedication] ~ Agatha Christie

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination. ~ Desi Puspitasari

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis. ~ Patrick Swayze

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? ~ Ken Wilber

It seems like we can't experience reality no matter how hard we try. Because illusion is always waiting at the end of the tunnel. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands - with all my senses, in fact - is always a welcome change of pace, whether in the kitchen or in the garden. There's something about such work that seems to alter the experience of time, helps me to reoccupy the present tense. I don't want you to get the idea it's made a Buddhist of me, but in the kitchen, maybe a little bit. When stirring the pot, just stir the pot. ~ Michael Pollan

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. ~ Joseph Jarman

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater. ~ C.S. Lewis

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did. ~ James Daly

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it. ~ Natasha Trethewey

After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming. ~ Chris Matakas

People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance. ~ M. Night Shyamalan

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ~ Peter Straub

I am not sure how we came to believe that we know more about what our people need than they do. A core, culturally supported assumption about their brokenness may have something to do with it, and so might our left-dominant culture and training that makes it more challenging to be present to anyone's implicit experience. Many it is equally about our inability to trust our own inner wisdom to guide us because no-one helped us listen when we were young. Without this trust, we may get frightened for our people and the process, and such feelings bring on the need to assert control ...

experiment with the pause, remembering that our rupture and repair are optimal, trust will grow as we and our 'patients' stumble together into the tentative, fluid process of attunement with one another that supports the awakening of the inherent wisdom and health. ~ Bonnie Badenoch

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience. ~ Eileen Myles

In solitude ... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others because I see my quiltmaking as my experience which has nothing to do with other people. ~ Nancy Crow

Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foundational text, she draws on the arts, philosophy and theology, and her experience as a hospice volunteer to explore concrete alternatives to privileging the rational mind. Her erudition, wisdom, and graceful writing are compelling proof of the intelligent body. ~ Mary E. Hunt

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God. ~ George Whitefield

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. ~ Benny Goodman

In recent years it has become popular for some retailers to begin their Black Friday sales on Thursday night. Do not support this inane trend. If you feel like you want to replicate the experience, blindfold yourself, tape $150 to your forehead and roll yourself down a hill in a shopping cart. ~ Jason Gay

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

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind ... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had. ~ Robin Pecknold

Every experience has its element of magic. ~ Hermann Hesse

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process. ~ Billy Gibbons