Quotes About Reflection

Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.