Quotes About Reflection

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.