Ernst Junger Quotes

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

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• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Creativity
  • Therapy

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Drugs scared me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Drugs

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Crisis
  • Despair

• Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Production

• There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Experience
  • Nice

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Experience
  • Door
  • Architecture

• Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Memories

• It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Said

• It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Book

• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Women
  • Experience

• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Doubt
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • History
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• I will never see myself as a businessman. I'm a designer. I have to be true to what I believe.

  

  John Rocha
  • Believe
  • True

• literally thousands of people have told me over the years that they met their wife or husband playing Pong.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Wife
  • Husband

• In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Experience
  • Creativity
  • Drugs