“I knew what was going on at that plate. It used to kill me to strike out, but when I struck out I knew what it was that got me and what I was going to try to do about it.”— Ted Williams, beabetterhitter.com
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about!”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“If you don't understand the message, then the message is not intended for you.”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I had two mothers, two childhoods, lived two different lives in two different cities. Maybe that's why I became two different people.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“There's no question that experience is more important and rewarding to someone who is an actor. My approach to Kojak in any situation would be my own approach. How I would react and respond? That's basically true whether I'm portraying a cop or a candlestick maker.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org
“I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.”— Aaron Sorkin, amazon.com
“These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It wi…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...no experience is too slight, and the merest occurrence unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, vast fabric in which every thread is drawn by an infinitely tender hand and laid next to another, held in place and supported by hundred others.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“In the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise, let alone help another, a great deal must come about, a great deal must come right, a whole constellation of things must concur for it to be possible at all.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging on to to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with; you’re losing familiarity.”— James Hillman, thesunmagazine.org
“Somewhere someone thinks they love someone else exactly like I love you. Somewhere someone shakes from the ripple of a thousand butterflies inside a single stomach. Somewhere someone is packing their bags to see the world with someone else. Somewhere someone is reaching through the most terrifying f…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one's mood.. ..coming in from a dark bedroom in the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything in a bluish li…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org