#ex

His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “People don’t just buy books because they need books,” he has said. “There are products like that. Pharmaceuticals are that way. Nobody enjoys browsing the Preparation H counter. But people will gladly spend hours in a bookstore, so you have to make the shopping experience fun and engaging. ↗

— Richard L. Brandt

#book-lovers #experience #experience

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#promise #reward #work #experience

IS BARACK OBAMA THE MESSIAH? "... A LIGHT WILL SHINE THROUGH THAT WINDOW, A BEAM OF LIGHT WILL COME DOWN UPON YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY ... AND YOU WILL SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT YOU MUST GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE FOR OBAMA" - BARACK OBAMA LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. JANUARY 7, 2008 ↗

— Barack Obama

#experience

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now. ↗

— Bill Loguidice

#inspirational #motivational #observational #wisdome #experience

Very few who manage a big league club are successful, fewer still are the ones who experience success over an extended period of time, but to achieve a level of success so extraordinary that it is given a category all it’s own—“The Big Red Machine”—places Sparky [Anderson] in one of the most exclusive and elite clubs in baseball history. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#cincinnati-reds #sparky-anderson #experience

Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#experience

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#knowledge #experience

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it. ↗

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

#experience

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”) ↗

— William Beckford

#wisdom #experience

He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#experience