#peri

I was for years in the yellow period, you know. ↗

— Josef Albers

#know #period #years #yellow #you

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#experience

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#educators #experience #more #observation #persons

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#experienced #mental #perception #something #thing

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. ↗

— William Alexander

#experience #fools #great #greatest #i

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#college #four #happiness #life #my life

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#book #elegance #elements #first #first time

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#country #crises #gap #had #intelligence

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience