Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

Alfred North Whitehead

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• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Win

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

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Experience
  • You
  • Looking

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• 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

• 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Small

• I don't claim any great experience or expertise.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Expertise

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Everyday

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Experience

• Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Experience
  • Myself
  • Years

• 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

• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Doubt
  • New
  • Without

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

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Memories

• But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Know

• If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Doubt
  • Humility
  • Ignore

• It's my experience at Fiat and, now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles that when there is a very strong CEO, it's a good thing to be chairman.

  

  John Elkann
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Strong

• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Country
  • America

• Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Good
  • Struggle

• Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

  

  Gaspar Noe
  • Yourself
  • Filmmaking
  • Expressing

• I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Experience
  • Doubt
  • Philosophical