Experience Quotes - Page 30

• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Greatness, Screw Ups, Needs

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• When you play, never mind who listens to you.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Play, Piano

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

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• How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.234, Tin House Books

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• What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

  Rollo May

  Art, Imagination, What If

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• For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Pulse, Axioms

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Caring, Persons

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.44, Anchor

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• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

  Erich Fromm

  Grief, Grieving, Mourning

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Courage, Real

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• I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Success, Years, Aging

  1953 ‘InYour Garden Again’.

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• Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

  Bob Packwood

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

  Dudley Field Malone

  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

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• You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Science, Technology

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• All life is an experiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Years teach us more than books.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Greatness

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• Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Motivation, Tuition

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