Human Experience Quotes - Page 15

• But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

  Chaim Potok

  Travel, Reading, Media

  4 Copy quote

• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

  8 Copy quote

• Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

  Mark Frost

  Elements, Crime, Consistent

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.152, Open Road Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Humans, Fascinated, Human Beings

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.

  Jonathan Moyo

  Beautiful, Wise, Reality

  57 Copy quote

• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

  4 Copy quote

• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Anxiety

  7 Copy quote

• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Mean, Thinking, Awkward

  8 Copy quote

• With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

  Mary McDonnell

  Taken, Years, Play

  9 Copy quote

• Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Errors, Giving, Promise

  Ernst Cassirer (2006). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

  Story Musgrave

  Space, People, Events

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

  Ruth Gordon

  Acting, Use, Actors

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

  Lewis Mumford

  Data, Experience, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Sad Life, Passing

  4 Copy quote

• Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foundational text, she draws on the arts, philosophy and theology, and her experience as a hospice volunteer to explore concrete alternatives to privileging the rational mind. Her erudition, wisdom, and graceful writing are compelling proof of the intelligent body.

  Mary E. Hunt

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

  Sada Thompson

  Character, Theater, Accomplished

  4 Copy quote

• The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.

  John Ralston Saul

  Thinking, Years, Civilization

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Chaos, Poetry Is

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite recently, in a limited number of countries, there has been no such thing as a marriage between persons of the same gender. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage. When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Country, Lying, Men

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.

  John Medina

  Lying, Effort, Research

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the more dangerous and dire the political circumstances seem, the more you attach value to anything that shows you why a human being is a human being or human experience or view of the world in that way.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Thinking, Views, Political

  "When the world feels dangerous, films showing the human experience are key, directors say". Interview with Mark Olsen and Yvonne Villarreal, www.latimes.com. January 5, 2017.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Unique, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

  Hugh Herr

  Foundation, Fundamentals, Disability

  "The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

  30 Copy quote

  Show source