George Henry Lewes Quotes

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

George Henry Lewes

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Expansion

• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Criticism
  • Experiences

• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Experiences

• Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Grateful
  • Experiences
  • Well

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Experiences

• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Living
  • More
  • Experiences

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Experiences

• I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• ‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Day
  • Looking
  • Experiences

• If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Understand
  • Experiences

• Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.

  

  Jizzy Pearl
  • Write
  • Experiences
  • Around

• Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we in US start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

  

  Nicholas Herbert Stern
  • Poverty
  • Fail
  • Climate Change

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • History
  • Blue
  • Machines

• Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

  

  George Henry Lewes
  • Experiences
  • Limited
  • Enriched