Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want...
The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you ...
Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. Th...
I'm not a beach person.
Don't try to make someone hate the person he loves, for he will still go on loving, but he will hate you.
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don’t change the world!
The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
