Quotes of: Direct-experience Keyword

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Ender's Shadow

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

Existence

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

Finding Jim

Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Guardian of the Gate

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

On the Heights of Despair

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

The Blank Book

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

The Blue Castle

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

The Book of Fires

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Blankets

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience.

Beasts

That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.

Case Files of an Angel

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Bill McCartney

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Ian Mckellen

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Jenna Morasca

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Joyce Maynard

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

Kim Cattrall

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter ...

Matt Mullenweg

Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

Owen Hart

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

William Boyd

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

Wynton Marsalis

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Zoe Saldana