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Our relationship with food is complex, influenced by culture, history, and personal experience.

From Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

Confidence is built through experience and stepping outside your comfort zone.

From Fearless and Free: How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch Their Careers by Wendy Sachs

God was a word that referred to a particular kind of experience.

From A History of God by Karen Armstrong

Flow is the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.

From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

An artist's life is a tapestry woven with experiences and insights.

From The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock

Mysticism allows us to experience the divine directly, beyond the confines of dogma.

From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

The writer's job is to make the reader feel that they have been there.

From On Writing Well by William Zinsser

When you say yes, you open yourself up to new experiences.

From Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Their short lives are filled with intense experiences.

From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

The design of everyday things is about how things work and how people interact with them.

From The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Human reason has a tendency to go beyond the limits of experience.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The mystical experience is often a deep and abiding sense of union.

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Money is a very important part of the human experience.

From The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

Understanding your unique experiences as a Black individual is crucial to navigating mental health challenges.

From The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Exploring the role of religion helps us understand human experience.

From Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels

The experience of pain is a universal one, but the way we understand it is inherently personal.

From The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

I'm a product of my life experiences.

From Open by Andre Agassi

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

From The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The sacred is not a matter of belief but of experience.

From The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse

The most valuable lessons come from the most painful mistakes.

From The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

From The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran

We need to teach our machines to learn from experience, just like humans do.

From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

AI can enhance human capabilities, but it also risks overshadowing the human experience.

From The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

Invest your time in experiences that enrich your life.

From The Joy of Missing Out by Tonya Dalton

The balance between the hemispheres is essential for a coherent experience of the world.

From The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist

Consciousness involves subjective experience and intentionality.

From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact the very essence of our human experience.

From The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab

Embracing the unknown can lead to incredible experiences.

From Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Every runner has their own journey, shaped by their experiences.

From Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The quest for meaning became a central human concern.

From The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong

Feedback is essential for the user to understand what is going on.

From The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

People began to form communities based on the shared experience of receiving news.

From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

To encounter a whale is to encounter the sublime, a moment that transcends the ordinary.

From The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare

The colors of our experiences create the palette of our existence.

From The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock

The most important thing about religion is that it is a matter of experience.

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

User-centered design means that we must focus on the needs of the user.

From The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

The divine is often depicted through the lens of human experiences and emotions.

From God: A Biography by Jack Miles

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

From When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

The rise of human performance is not just about improving skills; it's about unlocking the full potential of the human experience.

From The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

Investing in experiences often yields a greater return than investing in things.

From The Financial Diet by Chelsea Fagan

Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.0000001% of what’s happening in the world.

From The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Eating is a sensory experience that connects us to the world.

From Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

The varieties of religious experience are as varied as the human experience itself.

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

The sacred and the profane are two dimensions of human experience.

From The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade

The experiences of early childhood shape our entire lives.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

The divine is not a being but a presence that can be experienced in a variety of ways.

From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

A person who has not been in danger is not a person.

From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We need to understand why certain brain processes are accompanied by experience.

From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

Every challenge has taught me something valuable.

From More Myself by Alicia Keys

A sentence should be an experience.

From Draft No. 4 by John McPhee

User experience impacts SEO rankings more than ever.

From SEO for the Long Tail by Stacy Farr

Flow occurs when we are fully immersed in what we are doing.

From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Religion is about the way we experience the world.

From A History of God by Karen Armstrong

Feedback is essential to help users understand what action they have taken.

From The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Experience teaches us that we can never be certain of the future.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

What is it like to be a person with a neurological disorder?

From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Life is not a puzzle to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

I have not only a past, but a future, and I can see it as well as I can see the present.

From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The process of growing up involves a complex interplay of biology and experience.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

God experiences the world through human emotions.

From God: A Biography by Jack Miles

Time's arrow is a reflection of our experiences.

From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Every ride teaches you something new, whether you want to learn or not.

From Draft Animals by Phil Gaimon

The experience of the divine can be found in many forms.

From A History of God by Karen Armstrong

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

From The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

An autotelic experience is one that is intrinsically rewarding.

From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Every step is a story waiting to be told.

From Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

The Gnostics emphasized personal experience of the divine over dogma.

From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Art and literature reflect the complexities of human experience.

From The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Flow is not just a mental state; it’s a transformative experience that can change how we perceive reality.

From The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

A great perfume is one that evokes a memory.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

Voice search is transforming the way users interact with search engines, emphasizing the need for optimization.

From Voice Search Optimization: A Practical Guide by Phoebe Wang

The more challenges we face, the more flow experiences we can create.

From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Good decisions come from experience and experience comes from bad decisions.

From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

The joy of discovery is a vital part of the human experience.

From The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The search for meaning in the universe is the essence of human experience.

From The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels

The Gnostic Gospels emphasize personal experience over institutional doctrine.

From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Every trade is a lesson, and every lesson can lead to improvement.

From The Psychology of Trading by Brett N. Steenbarger

The most spiritual experience is the most material experience.

From The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

From The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

The most successful people are those who have a range of experiences, not those who have specialized in one area.

From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Sound is the invisible medium through which we experience our world.

From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox

The writer is a collector of moments.

From Draft No. 4 by John McPhee

We must seek to understand how physical processes give rise to the richness of conscious experience.

From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

The most profound changes in human history arise from deep inner experiences.

From The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong

Every experience shapes the developing brain.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik