Vicarious Experience Quotes

#1. History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

Hilary Mantel

#2. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura

#3. History at its best is vicarious experience.

Edmund Morgan

#4. If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Roger Ebert

#5. We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives.

Tony Reinke

#6. There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Mary Parker Follett

#7. All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Tom Bissell

#8. In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.

Peter C Bunnell

#9. Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

John Green

#10. You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

Jack Vance

#11. Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you ... an escape.

Davy Jones

#12. Rats! Sometimes it's very difficult being a dog ... Especially when it's raining. You're looking forward to a great breakfast ... When it arrives, you're full of joyful anticipation ... Then you see the water rise in your dog dish ... And you watch your pancakes float downstream!

Charles M. Schulz

#13. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

#14. An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!

Ariana Grande

#15. Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

Dalai Lama

#16. The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

Nathan Myhrvold

#17. You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Charlie Munger

#18. When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Robert Breault

#19. There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

T.L. Osborn

#20. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

Jean Dujardin

#21. It was clear that the delight being taken ... was not the vicarious pleasure of watching people enjoying themselves and identifying with them, but in seeing people being humiliated while others enjoyed themselves at their expense.

Iain M. Banks

#22. My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#23. The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

Michael Sam

#24. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#25. You're talking farts, not words!

Luo Guanzhong

#26. Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

Epicurus