Walter Benjamin Quotes

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

Walter Benjamin

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • World
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Me

• The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Player

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Experience
  • Think
  • See

• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Women
  • Experience

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Night

• If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Experience
  • Genius
  • Brainy

• 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Experience

• In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Alone
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Best
  • Always
  • Ideas

• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Sleep