Experience Quotes - Page 33

• Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Silence, Meditation, Who We Are

  "Find Your True Self Through Silence", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Wall, Long, Stuff

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

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• We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

  Gautama Buddha

  Capacity

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• Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Simple, Design, Consciousness

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Graphic Artist

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• I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

  Luis Miguel

  Mistake, Dark, Hard Times

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• It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

  Robin Trower

  Journey, Singing, Weak

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• Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

  April Greiman

  Creativity, Emotional, Design

  April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

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• An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Numbers, Perception

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• There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Book, People

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (January 17, 1837), 1959.

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• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  Walter Pater

  Understanding, Fruit, Ends

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

  Donna Tartt

  Jobs, Believe, Literature

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• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Organization

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• I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Later In Life, Bed, West

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• This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Science, Race, Car

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• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Influence

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• Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, Fool, Best Teacher

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• Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Military, Order, Suffering

  1991 Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress, 16 May.

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• It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Past, Historical, Lessons

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• The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Age, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

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• What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

  Robert Dallek

  War, Fighting, Giving

  1991 In the NewYork Times, 24 Feb.

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

  Francis Crick

  Strong, Reading, Math

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• People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  People, Clear, Positively

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• I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Japan, Creating

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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• I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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