Quotes About Experiences

Your job here in this Workshop is to assimilate data that you have been collecting from your real-life experiences (as you have been interacting with others and moving in and out of your physi-cal environment). Your work here is to bring the data together in a sort of picture of yourself, one that satisfies and pleases you.

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

I have played in so many games and have had so many incredible moments that selecting one or remembering all of them is impossible.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.

Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

That's what interested me: their characters. I wanted to know what they had acquired from the world around them and how their formative experiences found expression in a dimly lighted basement in Glen Ridge. What was it in their upbringing as children and adolescents, so seemingly comfortable and secure, that inclined them to take pleasure in the conscious degradation of a helpless woman?

Surely, when looking back, our lives can, for the most part, be accounted for in our interactions with others. That is where memories are stored, in one another. And yet each person is unique enough in his or her own thoughts that no two people are going to remember the same experience in the same way.

As you time-bucket your life, you parcel out a single list of experiences into different and distinct time sections of your life.

Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences—at any age—than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health—whereas people in good health but with little money can still have many wonderful experiences.