#experience

I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#american #american dream #been #believe #born

I do believe that models should be older now. You tell girls to go and catwalk and be sexy, but some of these girls have never even experienced their first kiss, so they don't understand how to be like that. ↗

— Shanina Shaik

#even #experienced #first #first kiss #go

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #beginning #business #could #creative

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#age

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#art

I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had been working on a novel. The same thing happened with the fourth. In fact, I did not have the energy to finish them. Now I know why: The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length, and sometimes even the personality of a character. All the rest is the pleasure of writing, the most intimate, solitary pleasure one can imagine, and if the rest of one's life is not spent correcting the novel, it is because the same iron rigor needed to begin the book is required to end it. But a story has no beginning, no end: Either it works or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, my own experience, and the experience of others, shows that most of the time it is better for one's health to start again in another direction, or toss the story in the wastebasket. Someone, I don't remember who, made the point with this comforting phrase: "Good writers are appreciated more for what they tear up than for what they publish. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#experience

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#been #chance #direction #experience #felt

The roots of the tarot have been lost forever and if we are to experience any sense of continuity we must turn to its appearance as an esoteric device. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#experience

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. ↗

— Gene Oliver

#experience #future #life #past #present

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#character #determined #experiences #had #lack