#peri

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern. ↗

— Mary Richards

#concern #could #dearest #experienced #feel

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. ↗

— Laura Riding

#brings #cannot #consciousness #degree #experience

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#ask #everyone #everything #experience #favorite

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#boxes #coming #contracts #cracker #ever

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#both #careers #different #different way #every

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#able #along #comes #confidence #every

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#behind #believe #conquer #doing #experience

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#built #character #courageously #grow #honestly

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#been #best #best way #depths #experience