#peri

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#better #book #experience #hope #keeps

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#direct #direct experience #eating #experience #genuine

No one man is superior to the game. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#man #superior

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#choose #experience #joys #long #our

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#else #flute #heart #hours #music

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#beloved #caused #death #more #perish

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#doing #enjoy #experiences #feel #having

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#am #beach #embrace #experiences #front

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#country #digest #experience #explore #how