Experimentation Quotes - Page 6

• The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Pie, Ice Cream

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• I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can build upon and get really comfortable with. I think almost everything is experimentation 'til you find what it is that your sound is.

  Hoodie Allen

  Real, Thinking, Focus

  Interview with Phillip Yung, earmilk.com.

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• I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

  RuPaul

  Men, Thinking, Hysteria

  Interview with T Lo, tomandlorenzo.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

  Harriet Lerner

  Joy, May, Pretending

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• Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

  David Lynch

  Going Away, Attempting, Opening

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• Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

  Vince Aletti

  Men, Thinking, Rays

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• But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Past, True Or False

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Matter

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

  Billy Corgan

  Artist, Self, Creative

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Song, Thinking, Names

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Past, Keys

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• I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Mean, Experiments

  "American dreams". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

  Mark McNairy

  Children, School, Adventure

  Source: wwd.com

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• The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

  Christopher Poole

  Names, Identity, Limits

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In my view, the problem with many conservative Christian parents is that they won't allow their children to have a different worldview from their own, and they don't forgive normal teenage experimentation, which they consider rebellion.

  Julia Scheeres

  Christian, Teenage, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Executives are afraid of losing control if subordinates try to roam too far. Conversely, hierarchy squelches talent by forcing rote standardization through the punishment of failure, a necessary accompaniment to experimentation.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Trying, Losing, Talent

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• Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Alive, May

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.

  Scott Aukerman

  Suffering, Foxes, Tvs

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Fiction, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Agency, Law

  Source: www.slate.com

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• These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.

  Christine Jennings

  Kids, College, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Animal, Compassion, Purpose

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• By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

  H. E Davey

  Moving, Yoga, Mean

  "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H. E. Davey, 2001.

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• Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Character, Design, Avant Garde

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

  Susan C. Aldridge

  Teaching, Learning, Reflection

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