#peri

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#between #difference #do you know #education #fine

There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore. ↗

— Jason Segel

#anymore #big #entered #feet #four

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#down #experiences #fax #few #find

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#away #clear #environment #experiences #first

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#being #coming #coming home #dogs #experiments

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. ↗

— William Shenstone

#his #hope #hut #man #most

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#apprehension #envy #fear #our #superiority

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

#felt #frequently #lines #most #musical

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business