Top 1200 Personal Experiences Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

I love connecting with the fan base and sharing my experiences.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.

I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that I do strongly believe. And in that sense American Gods is a very personal novel and a political novel. I was trying to describe the experience of coming to America as an immigrant, the experience of watching the way that America tends to eat other cultures.

There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5)

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?

What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.

It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Instead of holding grudges, it's better to learn from the bad experiences.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

All the experiences in the past have led me to where I am now.

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

I don't usually have those 'twin experiences' that people talk about.

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

We just have to move forward and learn from past experiences.

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

I'm willing to share my experiences with any young quarterback.

What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

If I'm not able to share my experiences with everyone or else, they mean nothing at all.

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.