Much of what happens over the networks is a metaphor - we chat without speaking, smile without grinning, and hug without touching. How sad to dwell in a metaphor without living the experience.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Book: The Once and Future King
Never argue with an idiot. They’ll lower you to their level and then beat you with their experience!
Proverb:
It [leaders talking about the mistakes they’ve made in their lives] empowers the followers and helps them understand how the leaders got where they are. It reinforces that thing we all know but find so hard to live, that if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not taking enough chances, not pushing yourself. It creates a culture of openness, lack of shame, mutual learning.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
[Terrence] McKenna applies his Irish gift of gab to making a simple case: Going through life without trying psychedelics is like going through life without having sex.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience. —Leonardo da Vinci
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.
2004 Commencement address at The College of William & Mary
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Drawing in 3D is a - what? - experience for me.