Quotes About Experience

I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished.

And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life—the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact.

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the situation. To

Heartbreak is like shattered glass: while it's impossible that two pieces could splinter in precisely the same pattern, in he end, it doesn't matter, because the effect is identical.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.

Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days.

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

You will become clever through your mistakes.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

It is never too late to be wise.

From my academic life, I was used to being in the company of very smart people, but it was apparent from the beginning that this was as smart a bunch of men as I had ever encountered. That first impression never changed (though I was to learn, in the years ahead, the severe limitations of sheer intellect

I know you've heard the phrase "It takes two to make a relationship better." It's just not my experience as a psychiatrist. When I teach my patients how powerful they are, they realize they can clearly make things better with their loved ones or they can make things worse.