#experience

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#does #experience #fact #hardly #in fact

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#experience

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#comes #diamonds #efforts #experience #favorite

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#traumatic-experiences #experience

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#had #how #i #learned #like

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dedication #goals #needs #opportunity #relationships

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#experience

Depending on your own background and life experiences, this may or may not be new to you, but after an eight-to-twelve-hour day, white office workers often don't feel like they've spent enough time with each other. Therefore, they are prone to organizing pseudo-official company activities such as bowling or happy hour. ↗

— Baratunde R. Thurston

#non-fiction #experience

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#answering #christian #experience #furnace #god

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. ↗

— Pat Brown

#aftermath #boost #community #control #coverage