Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
'The Girlfriend Experience' was definitely the break-out. When it came out, I started getting other opportunities.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
