#erie

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#only #paint #through #you #your

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#address #afford #being #career #could

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. ↗

— Rodger Ward

#car #crown #damn #driver #experience

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#boy #experience #good #needs #practice

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. ↗

— Mark Warner

#business #entire #entire life #entrepreneur #finished

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #experience #greater #happiness

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#american experience #basic #basic human rights #citizens #experience

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?' ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #gosh #i #love #myself

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion. ↗

— Anne Perry

#friendship #shared-experiences #death

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. ↗

— William Whewell

#combined #consequence #constantly #constitution #exercise