#peri

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#apt #as far as #authority #carry #constant

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#adversity #belong #good #good things #prosperity

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#heart #midst #moderation #prosperity #shows

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#determination #experience #fly #further #go

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#another #ask #communicate #entertaining #experience

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#books #daily #dreamed #each #experiences

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#bow #camp #experience #fire #friction

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#basically #could #down #favorites #find