Quotes of: Long-experience Keyword

The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that ...

Barry Schwartz

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is wel...

Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) ...

Jenny Han

Each of us has a heart, a soul, and feelings. Each of us desires to be wanted, to be appreciated, and to be loved." "Making love is not something you do to someone―it's something you share. Lovemaking between men and women should be mutually pleasu...

J.F. Kelly

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of v...

Anthony Bourdain

If I had to offer up a one sentence definition of addiction, I'd call it a form of mourning for the irrecoverable glories of the first time...addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia. That drive to return to the past isn't an inno...

Ann Marlowe

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was 'style' and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatu...

Life

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is...

Life

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will experience her own (and perhaps othe...

Love

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. St...

Love

I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.

Chaysing Memories

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Crown of Midnight

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Clockwork Prince

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

The Flame Alphabet

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.

A Game of Thrones

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

Brighton Belle

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Clockwork Angel

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

Sonny Rollins