I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. E. L. Doctorow avoidbadexperience Change image and share on social
I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers. Elliot Ackerman advisorafghanalongside share on social
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. Ezra Taft Benson badexperiencefool Change image and share on social
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. Elliott Smith experiencefloatmississippi Change image and share on social
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. Eric Kandel actionbiologicalbrain Change image and share on social
You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections. Eric Kandel altercellconnection share on social
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch basecircuitexist share on social
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. Edward Norton experiencelotnovelty Change image and share on social
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. Edmund White experiencefaithfulhave Change image and share on social
I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true. Emma Watson agoawfulbrown share on social