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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.
Everything we do, every decision we make, is to ensure the best possible Airbnb experience for our community and grow the love.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.
I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.