Quotes About Reflection

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

We see the world through our experience.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.