#third

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

#bitterest #easiest #experience #first #imitation

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

#easiest #experience #first #gaining #highest

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#bush #carter #eight #even #feckless

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#being #else #everything #i #i do

God watches over drunks and third baseman. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#drunks #god #over #third #watches

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#comes #commercial #expected #film #first

And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now. ↗

— Peter Krause

#arthur #been #dressing #dressing room #each

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#done #fear #figure #get #haven

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#i #memory #nerve #remember #thing

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#book #done #i #into #new