Carl Orff Quotes

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Carl Orff

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• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

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

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Myself

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Always

• I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Experience
  • Years
  • Same

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Car

• In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Yourself

• 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 know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Experience
  • Sad

• The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Freedom

• Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Life
  • Science
  • Romantic

• I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

  

  Lindsey Shaw
  • House
  • Single

• I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Faith
  • Community
  • Confidence

• Experience first, then intellectualize.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Experience