experience

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Wed 31 Jan 2018

Me, myself, and hi

Posted by PJ under experience, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks

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Wed 17 Aug 2016

Live

Posted by PJ under experience, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

—William Saroyan, Preface, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 8 Sep 2015

Experience

Posted by PJ under brain, experience, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Experience is food for the brain.”

—Bill Watterson, Kenyon College Commencement, May 20, 1990

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Tue 26 Aug 2014

Took an ax

Posted by PJ under experience, imagination, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Hateful, the writer who talks about and exploits what he has never experienced. But be careful, a murderer is not the best man to talk of crime. (But isn’t he the best man to talk of his crime? Even that is not certain.) Essential to imagine a certain distance between creation and the deed. The true artist stands midway between what he imagines and what he does.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Thu 6 Feb 2014

And I quote

Posted by PJ under experience, quotation, quote of the day, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, are preserved by quotation.”

—Isaac D’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature

(I just realized I used this image already last year. Sorry. No time to redo it.)

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Thu 27 Sep 2012

Khatmandhu

Posted by PJ under culture, experience, morality, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu
And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.”

—Rudyard Kipling, “In the Neolithic Age”

You can read the whole poem here.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 12 Jul 2012

To the last syllable

Posted by PJ under art, experience, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

 

“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

—James Baldwin, “Autobiographical Notes,” Collected Essays

 

 

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Mon 6 Jun 2011

The need for speed

Posted by PJ under experience, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

—R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fri 10 Sep 2010

Leaping to conclusions

Posted by PJ under experience, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“First you guess.  Don’t laugh, this is the most important step.  Then you compute the consequences.  Compare the consequences to experience.  If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong.  In that simple statement is the key to science.  It doesn’t matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is.  If it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong.  That is all there is to it.”

—Richard Feynman, broadcast class lecture, NOVA, “The Best Mind Since Einstein,” 1993

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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