People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Books And Blogs |
You Don’t Know What I Got | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
2018 | A Message To The White House Press Corps |
2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
Posts Tagged ‘Experience’
Still Building
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Character, Courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Experience, Honesty, Life, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Quotes on November 21, 2021| 4 Comments »
Does Blogging Count?
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Art, Education, Experience, https://news.lettersofnote.com/, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., New York City, Other Blogs, Other web sites, Philosophy, Quotes, Soul Growth, Xavier High School on November 9, 2021| 4 Comments »
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. | |
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. | |
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
From a letter to students at Xavier High School in New York City in response to an invitation to visit their school. | |
The quote is part of a larger response which was found on one of the blogs I follow: https://news.lettersofnote.com/ | |
The specific post can be found at: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/make-your-soul-grow | |
[Please visit the original site if you have a spare minute. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Even Being President For Almost Four Years |
#45: Crying About The American Voters | |
Dying Isn’t Much Of A Way To Make A Living Boy | |
2019 | And Autumnal Foliage |
2018 | Up Hill, Both Ways |
2017 | Trump Carnivores – The Revolution So Far |
2016 | Election Results |
2015 | Speak Louder |
2014 | Why I Frequently Give In |
2013 | Am Remembering |
2012 | Sustained Fear |
2011 | Commitment |
Try To Choose Wisely
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Choice, Experience, Joys, Kahlil Gibran, Philosophy, Quotes, Sorrows on March 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. | |
— Kahlil Gibran | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | We Have A Window |
2019 | No Escape |
2018 | Except When It Is From The Oval Office |
2017 | Bad Karma |
2016 | Poor Management Choices |
2015 | Is It Still Dark Out? |
2014 | Rule One |
2013 | Spelling God’s Name |
2012 | Love Your Life And Sing |
Feeling Under the Weather? | |
2011 | Cheers, Friend! |
Books And Blogs
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Experience, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Socrates, Time, Writing on November 21, 2020| 2 Comments »
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | |
― Socrates | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
2018 | A Message To The White House Press Corps |
2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
The Premium Few
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Friendship, Gail Godwin, Philosophy, Quotes on October 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. | |
— Gail Godwin | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Is That Why Love Hurts? |
2018 | And Honest Politicians |
2017 | Maya, Maya |
2016 | Give Value |
2015 | Believe In Substitution |
2014 | Pragmatic Religion |
2013 | How’s Your View? |
2012 | Giants Win Game 3 Of The 2012 World Series 2 To 0!!! |
Still Haven’t… | |
Accidental Me | |
2011 | What Is Your Ratio? |
2010 | Giants Win Game 1 With 11 Runs Scored – Repeat 11 Runs!! |
Ought To More Often Than Once
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Earth, Experience, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes on October 24, 2019| 2 Comments »
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Talking About Egypt, Not The White House |
2017 | Left Behind |
2016 | Self-Restraint |
2015 | In The Midst |
2014 | Match Book |
2013 | Disservice And Disingenuous |
2012 | Giants Win Game 1 Of The World Series 8 to 3!!! |
On Death | |
2011 | The Spirit Of Universal Connectivity |
2010 | SF Giants Pitchers Witness Protection Program |
Orange Outside (Too) & Fear The Beard | |
Non-Taxing Read | |
The Ones Worth Remembering, Anyway
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Experience, Humor, Mistakes, Oscar Wilde, Quotes on April 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. | |
–– Oscar Wilde | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | To Reach The Next Threshold |
2017 | Streaking Tales |
2016 | Singular Reality |
2015 | He Says It’s Hard To Get There From Here |
2014 | Question From A Founding Father |
2013 | Make Heroes |
2012 | See And Hold |
2011 | Am Not, Are So |
Worry (x2)
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Imagination, Mark Twain, Philosophy, Quotes, Walt Disney, Worry on September 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Worry is a waste of imagination. | |
— Walt Disney | |
Most of my life’s worst experiences never actually happened. | |
— Mark Twain | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Still Working |
Gold In The Morning Sun | |
2016 | Power Inside |
2015 | Sometimes I Feel Small |
2014 | It Slipped Away |
2013 | Corollary |
2012 | Working Retired |
2011 | The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?) |
Mirror, Mirror
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Philosophy, President Abraham Lincoln, Quotes, Vices, Virtues on February 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | |
— President Abraham Lincoln | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Keep On Keeping On |
2016 | Reflections |
2015 | Is It Time Yet? |
2014 | Ask Any Follower |
2013 | Cornered Or Surrounded? |
2012 | Escape |
2011 | Achievement |
Not Unreasonable Enough | |
The Voice Of Experience
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Arguing With Women, Experience, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, Will Rogers, Wisdom on July 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
There are two theories to arguing with a woman… neither works. | |
— Will Rogers | |
Never miss a good chance to shut up. | |
— Will Rogers | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Who And When |
2015 | Change Process |
2014 | What Is Still Possible |
2013 | Strength Is There |
2012 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
2011 | Celebrating Values |
2010 | Is it just me, or is it suddenly dark around here? |
Dance! | |
It’s Even Dimmer When You Don’t Have It
Posted in Quotes, tagged #DumbDonald, Experience, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Quotes on February 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. | |
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Inconvenienced By Degree |
2015 | Sincerity |
2014 | Prayers For Junior |
Senseless | |
2013 | Interesting Drink |
Super Bowl XLVII Declared A No Bird Zone | |
2012 | Smile |
2011 | Come Forward |
Are You Looking Forward To A Trump Presidency?
Posted in Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Donald Trump, Experience, George Bernard Shaw, Never Learning, Politics, Quotes on January 4, 2017| 3 Comments »
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. | |
― George Bernard Shaw | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Three Errors From Eureka |
2015 | Limiting Choices |
2014 | Praise The Lord And Pass The Hypocrisy |
That Sound | |
2013 | Still Waiting For Answers |
2012 | Informal Leadership |
2011 | A Little More Progress |
2010 | Bec’s Gone Again… |
Escape
Posted in Leadership, Quotes, tagged Experience, Leadership, Quotes, Warren Bennis on February 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Experiences aren’t truly yours until you think about them, analyze them, examine them, question them, reflect on them, and finally understand them. The point, once again, is to use your experiences rather than being used by them, to be the designer, not the design, so that experiences empower rather than imprison. | |
— Warren Bennis | |
From his book: “On Becoming A Leader“ | |
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