Quotes About Experiences

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

One minute you're invited to Puff Daddy's party, the next you're at a bash with Donald Trump, Kevin Costner and all these movie stars. Sometimes you had to pinch yourself and ask, what's a girl from the Peak District doing here?'

By always looking out and always moving myself forward and being disciplined and being open to new experiences, I think that's how I was able to diversify because if it felt right to me creatively, I went for it. It didn't matter if I knew how to do that, I just did it because my creative heart felt pulled to it. That seems to have worked out.

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

I learned that I have purpose and my experiences no matter how horrible taught me heart, strength and forgiveness!

For more than 40 years now, relentlessly, I have been pursuing brief encounters with the great and the good.

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.

I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

I have been really fortunate to have some great experiences in my life, and I look forward to more, and I would really like to have someone special to share those with.

I've been extremely happy and fortunate in terms of what I've achieved and the experiences I've been given.

When we look back, what we often find that's most lasting and meaningful from our experiences in games are the relationships we create and foster.

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.