Top 100 Life Experience Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
Kip Winger
#3. When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.
Jason Fulford
#6. We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.
Dirk Benedict
#7. The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Steven Erikson
#8. When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
Mark Duplass
#9. If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.
Nikolas Schreck
#10. The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.
Ernest Becker
#12. Once you make a conscious connection between your physical personality (what you know as you here in this body) and the Eternal Non-Physical Consciousness (what is really You), you can then get on with the reason you were born into this physical life experience.
Esther
#13. Gately's snapped to the fact that people of a certain age and level of like life-experience believe they're immortal: college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.
David Foster Wallace
#14. The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.
Ayana Mathis
#15. The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.
Phylicia Rashad
#16. I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
Lee Smith
#17. I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
Bruce Braley
#18. To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.
Kenny Ortega
#19. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner
#20. If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#21. I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
Mike Leigh
#22. No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!
Jonathan King
#23. Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin
#24. I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
Roger Ailes
#25. If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
Kenny Ortega
#26. Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
Roger Deakins
#27. I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.
Stana Katic
#28. Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.
Esther Hicks
#30. I have vowed to heal in the name of all beings. This vow is being fulfilled, Sofia, with the testimony of this book. I have shared this life experience with you in order to help my readers better recognize the power of their own mind.
Phakyab RINPOCHE
#31. Animal companions come into your life for an infinite number of reasons, each one being in service to you, your current life experience, and moreover, your soul's growth and evolution.
Amy Miller
#33. Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.
Esther Hicks
#34. Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.
Rand Olson
#35. I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.
Ty Segall
#36. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.
Dorianne Laux
#37. I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn't always like High School Musical.
Zac Efron
#38. I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.
Alex Meraz
#39. My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
Andrea Bocelli
#40. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#41. Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
Gary Wolf
#42. This too shall pass." It confirms that you can and should expect change and Uncertainty as a natural part of your life experience because nothing (and no thing) lasts forever. The sooner you learn this life lesson, the less you shall suffer.
Dennis Merritt Jones
#43. Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
Carrie Fisher
#44. The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
Howie Mandel
#45. I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
Juliette Binoche
#46. You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
David Mamet
#47. The traits that bother you in other people are the Coping Skills they developed automatically, as a result of their life experience.
Odille Rault
#48. Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.
Colin Powell
#49. I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
Mariel Hemingway
#50. U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
John Lydon
#51. It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.
Ryan Gosling
#52. I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
Kathleen Wynne
#53. 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
#54. We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
Howie Mandel
#55. Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
#56. Simon would disapprove, in the way that people who lacked life experience always disapproved of others having adventures they had so far missed out on.
Sophie Hannah
#57. Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
Bryant McGill
#58. The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't offer much to you. That's what I love about the film: It explodes your stereotype of them - they're not just a bunch of lugheads banging on the guitar.
Joe Berlinger
#59. As it is with every Life experience,
from the cradle to the grave,
Curiosity, is the culprit,
and always leads the way.
D. O'Brien
#60. A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.
Chandler Burr
#61. And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#62. Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds ... If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.
John Madden
#63. As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.
Tim Wu
#64. For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.
Brad Pitt
#65. When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
Timothy B. Schmit
#66. The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
Jenny Slate
#67. I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
Jodie Foster
#68. I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
Barney Kessel
#69. You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually ... your life experience.
Esther Hicks
#70. Bring real and practical life experience to the people
Sunday Adelaja
#71. All the studies show that the best age to die is eighty. It's long enough that we can have a complete life experience, but not so long that we feel useless.
Ally Condie
#72. Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
Benny Blanco
#73. I need to approach my Father in heaven as if I were three feet tall and short on life experience.
Bonnie Lyn Smith
#74. I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
#75. Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life experience can make all the difference.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#76. Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
Cesar Chavez
#78. A girl locked in a tower with no life experience. But, you know, Rebecca ... this isn't a fairy tale. Your tower will never protect you from the darkness outside."
"And your tower will always be a prison," I said softly.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#79. With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
Nigel Lythgoe
#80. I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.
Jason Mraz
#81. Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.
Donnie Yen
#82. I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
Mark Wahlberg
#83. A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way is of no consequence.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#84. I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
Rosanne Cash
#85. When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.
Steve Buscemi
#86. Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.
Kiesza
#87. I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.
Todd Phillips
#88. There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
Jeff Greenfield
#89. Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Katherine Paterson
#90. The potential of your life experience shrinks or expands according to your ability to love.
Bryant McGill
#91. Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can't say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote
Sahara Sanders
#92. You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
John C. Reilly
#93. Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience,
Esther Hicks
#94. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
Mariel Hemingway
#95. Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.
Ken Mehlman
#96. Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life experience and my practices, I'm able to see it for what it is, and I'm able to use the techniques that yoga and Ayurveda have to offer us.
Brad Willis
#97. There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.
Stephen De Staebler
#98. Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale
#100. It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.
Annie Proulx
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