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Quotes About Experience

His blue cotton shirt stands out joyfully against a chocolate-coloured wall. That too brings on the Nausea. The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it OUT THERE in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the café, I am the one who is within IT.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Hayat?m?n anlar?n?n, hat?rlanan bir hayat?n anlar? gibi birbirini izlemesini istemiÅŸtim. Zaman? kuyruÄŸundan yakalamaya kalk??man?n böyle bir önemi olabilirdi.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also to feelings of hope and confidence?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Antes de alguém viver, a vida, em si mesma, não é nada; é quem é a vive que deve dar-lhe um sentido; e o valor nada mais que constatar-se, assim, que é possível criar uma comunidade humana.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Pero en el seno mismo de ese éxtasis, acababa de aparecer algo nuevo: yo comprendía la Náusea, la poesía.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Cand aveam 20 de ani m? îmb?tam ÅŸi pe urm? explicam c? sunt un tip în genul lui Descartes. SimÅ£eam c? m? umflu de eroism, îmi d?deam frîu liber, îmi pl?cea. Dup? care, a doua zi, eram la fel de scîrbit ca ÅŸi cînd m-aÅŸ fi trezit într-un pat plin de v?rs?turi. Ieri n-aveam nici m?car scuza beÅ£iei. M-am exaltat ca un imbecil. Am nevoie s? m? cur?? cu gînduri abstracte, transparente ca apa.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me-and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth-lying low-grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What sort of adventures?" I ask him, astonished. "All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo . Es esto lo que engaña a la gente: el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
~ John Updike
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
~ John W. Thompson
Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.
~ Judd Nelson
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
~ Kate Smith
I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.
~ Khandi Alexander
I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.
~ Lee Majors
When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.
~ Lori Loughlin
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
~ Malcolm Cowley
You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.
~ Mike Michalowicz
The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.
~ Patti Smith
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
~ Paul Cezanne
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.
~ Paul Goldberger
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.
~ Pedro Almodovar
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
~ Olivier Martinez
I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.
~ Rani Mukerji