Experimental Life Quotes

#1. The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

Randolph Bourne

#2. Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Gus Van Sant

#3. The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

Ramana Maharshi

#4. To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

John Lyly

#7. [Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

Isaac Todhunter

#8. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.

Jonathan Douglas Duran

#9. An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

Richard Lewontin

#10. One day, when you are sitting with my sister, Mahgen, around a fire, and you're feeling how perfectly right it is to be next to her, this moment, this tease of desire between us, will be long forgotten.

Madison Thorne Grey

#11. The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

Jason Bateman

#12. There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.

Marty Liquori

#13. Because no matter how experimental he is, his life isn't an experiment.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

Christian Finnegan

#15. The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Harvey Cox

#16. Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

George Gilder

#17. At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Orhan Pamuk

#18. If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.

Timothy Zahn

#19. I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

Todd Haynes

#20. Life is an experimental field. You can explore by faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Paul Davies

#22. Life is an experimental field.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.

Atul Gawande

#24. Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

George Santayana

#25. If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

Dan Fogler

#26. I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

Katie Lowes

#27. Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Barbara Holland

#28. Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

Sinbad

#29. It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.

Azar Nafisi

#30. In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it. Patients

Atul Gawande

#31. I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Mike McCarthy

#32. The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.

Maria Montessori

#33. When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Nathaniel Branden

#34. When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

Elizabeth Gilbert