Physical Experience Quotes

What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in Madrid and you want to go into Hieronymus Bosch or whatever, you'd rather go into books and you take your time and it's sitting there all day long and you go back and revisit it and it becomes part of your physical life.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

The journey of Soul... by the lessons gained in the physical experience... it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms... which first called every soul and body into experience.

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience.

Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, um, smelly.

Really, the way to learn jiu-jitsu is to do it. If you do jiu-jitsu you get it and you learn it.

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

(I measure time by how a body sways.)

All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Racism is a physical experience.

There are things you can get in that physical experience you cannot get virtually.

When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.

The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.