#experience

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#characters #fiction #imagination #madame-bovary #reading

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#experience #few #few people #people #premium

Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #quicksand #spring-board

A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#health #healthy-choice #life #experience

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#comes #data #experiences #exploring #first

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#experience #grafted #growth #into #learned

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#carnegie hall #dubious #expected #experience #first

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#consider #dawn #experience #most #people

All right," she snaps at the computer. "I get it. I'm slowing down! Gods!" "Activating Generic Ocular Display Sequence. G.O.D.S." The front of her shuttle goes transparent and Vol experiences a nauseating wave of vertigo. "No, that's not what I meant! It's an expression! What the hell?" "Error. Request must be made in the form of a command." "Oh, f*** you." "Error. Command not recognised." "I'm not surprised," Vol mutters. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#endgame #nenia-campbell #vol #experience

What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be--not seem--outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined--as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures placed on one to lie about one’s own experience. For in the same way that the writer scarcely ever had a more uneasy time, he has never been needed more. ↗

— James Baldwin

#writing #experience