#peri

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#being #distorted #each #experience #freely

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#better #buy #go #hype #investments

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ambiguities #avoided #been #experience #idealism

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. ↗

— David O. Russell

#cinema #compelling #creating #experience #fiction

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#because #close #educated #evaluate #game

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#done #experiment #needs #ought #statistics

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#consent #contacts #critical #experiences #help

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time. ↗

— Jacques Santer

#artificial #certain #last #only #period