Human Experience Quotes - Page 9

• The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

  Jane Addams

  Journey, Expression, Ideas

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.14, Youcanprint

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• The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

  Steve Cosson

  Ideas, Mind, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

  William Westney

  Adventure, Joy, Facts

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.169, Amadeus Press

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• ...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Voice, Giving

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.172, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Crush, Country, Sex

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

  Terence McKenna

  Greek, Events, Cosmic

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• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Attitude, Organization

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

  Hyman Rickover

  Organization, People, Done

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.

  Andrew Cohen

  God, Giving, Joy

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• I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.

  Sara Bareilles

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by our memories, our dreams and hopes, the stories and connections that our brains make as we navigate a universe of fantasy, or unreality, or surreality. I'm keen to explore this very human experience, how our minds create our own realities, a blend of fact and interpretation of fact.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Real

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

  Paul Goodman

  Education, Practice, Culture

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.79, New York Review of Books

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• Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

  Peter Marshall

  Dream, Historical, Vision

  Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press

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• I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

  John McLaughlin

  People, Trying, Reach Out

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• My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

  Emily Browning

  Jobs, Real, Able

  "Emily Browning’s East End Girl". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2015.

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• The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior. The character and quality of the images of the future which prevail in a society is therefore the most important clue to its overall dynamics.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Character, Past, Keys

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Drama, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Faith, Angel

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• Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

  David McCullough

  Time On Earth, Limits, Clock

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taken, Book, Mean

  Source: feathertale.com

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Men, Order

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• Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law, Competition, Soil

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.15, Penguin

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• I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

  Rian Johnson

  Style, Kind, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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