#experience

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memories #past #real #remembering #surreal

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#force #intellect #operation #passion #skill

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#any #budget #budget cuts #criticism #cuts

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#abuse #achieve #bases #combat #defeat

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. ↗

— Jonas Salk

#chance #experience #happens #information #nothing

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it. ↗

— Walter Salles

#anything #could #diaries #experience #going

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films. ↗

— Walter Salles

#films #i #interested #living #more

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #completely #construction #everything #experience

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#does #experience #had #hadn #i