#erie

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#aristocrats #born #dreading #experience #freaks

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#country #experience #far #illness #into

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. ↗

— John Ashbery

#experiences #i #i write #mind #out

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#away #been #career #character #days

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#first #hand #nice #these #witness

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. ↗

— Eric Avery

#around #buck #considered #experience #first

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#experience

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#conclusion #discovers #does #draws #experience

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#experience #experimental #goal #long #nothing