Quotes about Experience

We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Write about your childhoods, I tell them for the umpteenth time. Write about that time in your life when you were so intensely interested in the world, when your powers of observation were at their most acute, when you felt things so deeply. Exploring and understanding your childhood will give you the ability to empathize, and that understanding and empathy will teach you to write with intelligence and insight and compassion.

Grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

This menagerie - it was part of my being repented - to show up places where I might have been afraid, like the zoo or a marriage.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

If you travel on an airline and they get you there safely, you don't tell anyone. That's what's supposed to happen. What makes it remarkable is if it's horrible beyond belief or if the service is so unexpected (they were an hour early! they comped my ticket because I was cute! they served flaming crêpes suzette in first class!) that you need to share it.

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The reason Steve Herrell's shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.