Jerry Bridges Quotes
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.
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I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
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Gratitude is riches, and complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful!
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
