Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
Jane Roberts

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
Kim Weston

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
Joseph Stiglitz

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
Tony Curtis

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
Jerzy Kosinski

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
Vin Diesel

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
Kim Cattrall

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
Aishwarya Rai

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
John Ashbery

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.
Robin Quivers

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.
Ken Hill

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
Christian Bale

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
Christian Bale

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.
Martina Hingis

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
Andrea Corr