It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.
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.
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
