“Experiência não é o que acontece com um homem; é o que um homem faz com o que lhe acontece.”
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Livros, Texts and Pretexts, 1932
Variante: Experiência não é o que aconteceu com você; mas o que você fez com o que lhe aconteceu
Original
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Variante: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Fonte: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Contexto: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
Aldous Huxley 118
1894–1963Citações relacionadas
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Em entrevista após ser atingido por trás pelo piloto Sébastien Buemi no Grande Prêmio de Mônaco de 2009.
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