#experience

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. ↗

— Malcolm X

#personality #experience

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#astray #experience #gone #good #reach

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#moment #next #now #practice #shapes

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. ↗

— Todd Barry

#bring #celebrity #classy #experience #i

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#poetry #poets #experience

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#children #experience #happy #i #make

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#politics #rnc #experience

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#between #entrepreneur #experience #link #one word