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Actual Experience Quotes

What lived experience teaches

These quotes explore what changes once someone lives through something directly, whether it eases a fear tied to being near death or reshapes how they see combat.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Quotes by Stanislav Grof

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.

Quotes by Kevin Macdonald

When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how...

Quotes by Harvey V. Fineberg

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense...

Quotes by Debra Winger

Able Quotes

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in...

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Quotes by Ben Affleck

So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot...

Quotes by Barbara Hershey

Frequently Asked Questions

What theme runs through these actual experience quotes?
They explore how living through something directly, like death, combat, or complex evidence, shapes understanding in ways theory alone cannot.
Is there a quote connecting actual experience to fear of death?
Yes, one line suggests that facing death before dying can liberate someone from the fear of it and shape the actual experience of dying itself.
Do any quotes reference real combat experience?
One quote references an early documentary praised for honestly capturing what it was really like for a soldier under fire.
How do these quotes treat complex problems like autism?
One line argues that complex problems require evidence gathered from many actual vantage points rather than a single perspective.
Does actual experience fade over time according to these quotes?
One speaker admits the details of a close brush with death fade with the years, though the underlying feeling it left behind does not, a theme echoed on the Being page.

One line notes that complex problems demand evidence gathered from many actual vantage points, while another admits a close call's flavor lingers long after the memory fades.