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Quotes About Experience

An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".
~ Alastair Reynolds
All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense of some vital task that I must complete, and which has not yet reached cessation. But I could be completely mistaken. Perhaps I was simply a tourist, ambling his way from sight to sight with no greater goal than to accumulate memories and experience - much like yourselves, in fact.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Behold, Mr. Clavain: Chasm City. A place I have to come to know and, while not actually love, perhaps not to detest with quite the same missionary zeal as when I first arrived.
~ Alastair Reynolds
What's the point in longevity if every day is a grey duplicate of the one before?
~ Alastair Reynolds
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
~ Richard Schickel
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
~ Ben Stein
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.
~ Gregory Porter
I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.
~ William T. Vollmann
I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of 'I found this!' and then you can pass it to friends.
~ Maria Bamford
Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
~ Francis Collins
I've never had a personal experience with cancer.
~ Italia Ricci
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.
~ Sebastian Lelio
I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
~ Yuna
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
~ Barry Jenkins
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
~ Miranda Lambert
There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.
~ Megyn Kelly
Occasionally, I share advice, but most of my advice is based on my personal experience.
~ Delilah
I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.
~ Min Jin Lee
In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.
~ Reed Morano
From my own personal experience, I can tell you that things I achieved in the J2 league meant a lot to me.
~ Shinji Kagawa
I think when I got to Sauber you can really feel the difference in personal experience in the team. They've been around for a long time and also the construction team is a lot stronger.
~ Marcus Ericsson
The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them. I feel very emotional when I'm singing 'Rock Lobster,' but I've wanted to sing more about my personal experience.
~ Kate Pierson
Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.
~ Kanika Dhillon
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
~ Vera Farmiga