Emmet Gowin Quotes

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

Emmet Gowin

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• My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Boy

• 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

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Risks

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Up
  • Business
  • Experience

• Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Done
  • Job
  • Experience

• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Children
  • Job

• I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

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

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Religious

• The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.

  

  David Bergen
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Experience

• 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Small

• My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Experience
  • Band
  • Rock

• The only way I know to get involved in things is to dive into it.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Way
  • Education
  • Involvement

• From the time I was a little girl, I'd just always been naturally curious. And I was raised in a family that... would just get really worked up about inequities and unfairness.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Father
  • Cutting

• Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Experience
  • Tremble
  • Wholeness