"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
― Walter Benjamin
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Walter Benjamin
- "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
- "Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
- "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
More In Experience
- "If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they’re wrecking their own kids’ lives, there will be a mass change in value."― Kim Stanley Robinson
- "It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone."― Bryant H. McGill
- "I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."― John Wooden