Quotes About How Experiences Shape Us

#1. I had been in search of a model that would foster a global and open understanding, one that allowed me to shape my own belief system as I liked, informed by my own experiences and without having to conform to particular dogmas or doctrines.

Laurent Huguelit

#2. It's wild how unexpected experiences can shape your life in ways you never saw coming.

Susane Colasanti

#3. A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

Jan Koum

#4. My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

David Rockwell

#5. I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us.

Layla Hagen

#6. All human beings have control over their own destiny. that is, after all, our purpose on this planet. not to interfere with the lives of others but to shape our own experiences.

Jessica Brody

#7. As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Juliet Aubrey

#8. Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences ... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

Henry Moore

#9. God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.

Steven Furtick

#10. CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life.

Yay Padua-Olmedo

#11. Are we not all shaped by our experiences? Are we not the sum of our memories? The sages of the dwarves say that just as the thousand blows of a hammer shape a blade, so to do the thousand experiences of a man shape him.

Jonathan Moeller

#12. Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

Leon Brown

#13. As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#14. God gives people the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he's designed for them.

Steven Furtick

#15. Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Christopher Lasch

#16. Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.

Frank Herbert

#17. As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Chris Hemsworth

#18. In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

#19. How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How

Frank Herbert

#20. It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

Tony Robbins

#21. Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Dee Dee Myers

#22. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

Teresa Heinz

#23. Every memory makes me who I am right now, in this moment. Good or bad, all experiences shape you.

L. H. Cosway

#24. My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Wayne Dyer

#25. Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones.

Rick Joyner

#26. Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality.

Roshan Sharma

#27. One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.

J. Loren Norris

#28. Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Helen Fisher

#29. You are a self and an other.
Your 'others' are in part your own creation.
This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self.
Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others. p.231

Stephanie Dowrick

#30. It is our experiences in their entirety that proves to be the mold required to shape us into the person we need to be;for what is the point of life without an exceptional story of overcomed adversities?

Renee' A. Lee

#31. our first experiences of pleasurable solitude teach us how to be content by ourselves and shape the conditions in which we seek it.

Kate Bolick

#32. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires ...

Elizabeth Hardwick