Life Experience Quotes - Page 16

• I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.

  Anna Biller

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through. Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Knowing, Small Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

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• My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

  Fred Durst

  Real, Inspiration, Real Life

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• A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Needs, Attention

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Wine, Mellow

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wise, Believe, Opportunity

  "Sotomayor hearings: The complete transcript, Part 1". latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decisions We Make, Experience, Woven

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.347, Macmillan

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• I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Meaning Of Life, Recognition

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• Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

  Satya Nadella

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO". news.microsoft.com. February 4, 2014.

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Parent

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• Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Feelings, Action, Currency

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• At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

  Michelle Obama

  Decision, Vision, The End Of The Day

  Remarks at Campaign Event, www.whitehouse.gov. August 2, 2012.

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• I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wise, Wisdom, Believe

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• Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Writing, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

  Susan Jeffers

  Age, Aging, Incredibles

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• When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Unique, Love Is

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• Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Inspiration, Knows

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• Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

  Nev Schulman

  Mean, Heart, Adventure

  "Hot Topic: Nev Schulman" by David Yi, www.elle.com. June 25, 2013.

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• I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

  Julian Bond

  Couple, Real, People

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  If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

  Haile Selassie

  Book, Open Minded, Form

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• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  Kate Millett

  Life, Two, Males

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.31, Columbia University Press

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• Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Friendship, Team

  "Unleash the Power Within" seminar, September 2005.

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