This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Beginning | Experience | Wisdom |
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Consciousness | Earth | Experience | Future |
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
Experience | Important |
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.
Discipline | Experience | Life | Life |
Haim Ginott, fully Haim G. Ginott, orignially Ginzburg
Acknowledging experience and reflecting feelings are helpful interpersonal skills. However, they are not tricks or gimmicks. Nor can they be used mechanically. They are helpful only within a context of concern and respect. In human relations the agents of help are never solely the techniques, but the person who employs them. Without compassion and authenticity, the techniques fail.
Compassion | Experience | Feelings |
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Harold Geneen, fully Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Business | Experience | Will | Business |
The place where man vitally finds God... is within his own experience of goodness, truth, and beauty, and the truest images of God are therefore to be found in man’s spiritual life.
Experience | God | Man | God |
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry Beston, born Henry Beston Sheahan
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Adventure | Experience | Fear | Reverence |
Henry Beston, born Henry Beston Sheahan
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
Awareness | Experience | Man | Mystery | Awareness |
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.
Duality | Experience |
The Enneagram is a psychological and spiritual system with roots in ancient traditions. Traces of it can be found in Sufism, Judaism, and specifically, in the seven capital tendencies of early Christianity. These seven capital tendencies, anger, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth, along with two general traits everyone shares, deceit and fear, make up the nine personality types of the Enneagram. Each personality type on the nine-pointed star of the Enneagram can be seen as a pointer to a constellation of tendencies, perspectives, and habitual perceptions characteristic to each type. In Enneagram study, these constellations of motivation are called passions, and each one colors how we experience ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. The purpose of Enneagram studies is gain insight into how these passions and compulsions operate in ourselves and others, thereby fostering self-understanding and empathy, giving rise to improved relationships.
Deceit | Experience | Giving | Insight | Personality | Purpose | Purpose | System | World |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Ability | Experience |
One of the supreme hours of human experience arrives when a man gets his eye on something concerning which he is persuaded that is the eternal truth.
Eternal | Experience | Man |