#experience

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough ↗

— Carlos Luiz Zafon

#experience #wisdom #experience

I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#experience #humour #knowledge #smell #experience

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience. ↗

— Jared Leto

#experience #music #subjective #unique #unique experience

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ↗

— Primo Levi

#anyone #experiences #explosive #gossip #nature

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#experience #i #know #me #people

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. ↗

— Ben Maddow

#just #me #never #policeman #right

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support. ↗

— Wendie Malick

#character #context #doing #else #experiences

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#artist #artwork #concern #exactly #experience

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience