Ernest Wood Quotes

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Ernest Wood

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• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Know

• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

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

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • People
  • Experience
  • True

• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • End

• Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Sex
  • Goal
  • Color

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Thinking
  • Management

• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Real

• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Death

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Knowledge

• The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Cold

• Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Kind
  • Sometimes
  • Instinct

• Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

  

  Ernest Wood
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Unity