Experience Impact Quotes

Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no, no. You're the second slowest. It seems the older you get the slower they come. I wonder if it is like that for everybody?' He said, 'It ain't with Don Henley. He seems to be writing more than ever.'"

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

After a while, you are not the same person you were when you got there.

But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Many players win the league for the first time, and they come back, and it's something you have to feel, to see in their eyes if things have changed or not.