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" For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel. "

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" Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly. "

Edith Widder

Lights

Experience

Down

" The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space. "

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

" The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes. "

" Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. "

" I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience. "

" The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience. "

" There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. "

" I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington. "

" There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person. "

" The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. "

" Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. "

" Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. "

Alphonse de Lamartine

Wise

Only

Wise Men

" The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Looking

You

Time

" The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. "

" Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. "

" I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long. "

" Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. "

" I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. "

" Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine. "

" As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. "

" The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. "

" The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. "

" We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it. "

" For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I'm very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens to be rooted in my community's trans experiences. "

Janet Mock

Experience

Community

" I don't have to have faith, I have experience. "

Joseph Campbell

Experience

Faith

" There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain. "

" Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation. "

" I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience. "

Subhash Chandra

People

Important

" I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. "