Experience Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting…

— Charles Baudelaire

“You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.…

— Ian Bogost

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession…

— Helen Keller

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

— Fred Alan Wolf

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it.…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

— Karen Armstrong

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing…

— Joseph P. Kauffman