Quotes About Reflection

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

We need experience to release what matters.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.