Quotes about Experience

Grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

This menagerie - it was part of my being repented - to show up places where I might have been afraid, like the zoo or a marriage.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

If you travel on an airline and they get you there safely, you don't tell anyone. That's what's supposed to happen. What makes it remarkable is if it's horrible beyond belief or if the service is so unexpected (they were an hour early! they comped my ticket because I was cute! they served flaming crêpes suzette in first class!) that you need to share it.

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The reason Steve Herrell's shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

Things that grow don't grow forever—but that's okay, because the experiences we collect stick with us, and we get to take those experiences wherever we go.