Life Experience Quotes - Page 11

• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being

  Daria Halprin

  Expression, Movement, Body

  Daria Halprin (2003). “The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning”, p.17, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

  Rosanne Cash

  Thinking, Add, Sensitivity

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?

  Echo Bodine

  Wise, Jobs, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Quality, Process, Capacity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Facts, Integrating

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

  Dick Gephardt

  Thinking, White, House

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2016

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• Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Heart, People, Optimism

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. September 9, 2003.

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• I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

  Mark Batterson

  Book, Writing, Average

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• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Trying, Audience

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

  Alex Meraz

  Son, Wife, Practical Life

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• Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

  T.I.

  Giving, Fit, Offers

  Source: collider.com

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• Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

  Donna Air

  Twenties, Kind, Judgmental

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• Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

  Jane Powell

  Challenges, Next, Failing

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• Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Positive Life, Feelings, You Only Live Once

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• I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

  Mike Bickle

  Christ, Bible Verse, Lifestyle

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• Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Fiction, Ass, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience. In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Real, Drama, Members

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life experience is the best teacher.

  David Letterman

  Teacher, Best Teacher

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• You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.

  Brett Morgen

  Divorce

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Creative, Way

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• Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Childhood, Normal

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Attention, Results

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• We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

  Howie Mandel

  Circles, Tables, Comedy

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