Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" All adventure is now reactionary. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Related Quotes:

" Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. "

" Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. "

" The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience. "

" I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited - with good results. "

" Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible. "

" One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. "

James Russell Lowell

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington. "

Alberto Gonzales

" I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. "

" In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. "

" Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. "

Daniel Libeskind

" Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. "

" If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. "

" Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates. "

" As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity. "

" There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. "

" I didn't think; I experimented. "

Anthony Burgess

" There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

" Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. "

" The noblest search is the search for excellence. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. "

" Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. "

" As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion. "

" Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. "

" If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. "

" 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. "

" I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have. "