Experience Inspiration Quotes

When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can they cause a similar reaction in the reader.

Through this, the author gets to experience multiple lives. If a character's life flashes before their eyes, it flashes before the author's eyes too, and he or she remembers it as his or her own.

With reading, we get to live other lives vicariously, and this is doubly so with writing. It is like a lucid dream, where we guide the outcome. In this, we don't merely write *about* a character -- we momentarily *become* them, and walk as they walk, think as they think, and do as they do. When we return to our own life, we might return a little shaken, likely a little stronger, hopefully a little wiser.

What is certain is that we return better, because experiencing the lives of others makes us understand their aims and dreams, their fears and foils, the challenges and difficulties, and joys and triumphs, that they face. It helps us grow and empathise, and see all the little pictures that make up the bigger one we see from the omniscience of the narrator. ~ Dean F. Wilson

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism. ~ Lauren Groff

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] ~ R. Alan Woods

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. ~ Michael A. Singer

Don't do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know. ~ Fitri Puji Astutik

You do not know a situation until you experience . ~ AceQwetyu

When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like the sea. And then I gradually become tranquil, peaceful, calm ... ~ Subarna Prasad Acharya

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience. ~ Jacent Mary Mpalyenkana

Experience has taught me choosing the right people to have in your life should be a well thought out, deliberate process. ~ Carlos Wallace

Mistakes becomes experience ... ~ Akshay Dubey

The honor of your presentation, execution, experience, and growth will do much more for you and your career over false claims that have no substance yet. ~ Loren Weisman

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes. ~ Scott Stabile

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence. ~ Toni Sorenson

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while. ~ Jay Woodman

Don't try to fit me in a box… My life is not one dimensional. I'm the summer breeze and the hurricane… I'm the serene lake and the raging ocean… I'm the gentle poet and the rough warrior… I can build and I can destroy... I can romance and I can ravage... I can be wise and I can be silly... I can and WILL be everything that the length, depth, and breadth of life will allow... KNOW THIS! Your labels don't limit me… they limit your experience of me. Don't confuse the two. ~ Steve Maraboli

Ann credited that experience as one that had set a course for where she was today. It had inspired her. ~ Dawn Klinge

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience. ~ Michael Beckwith

Experience is something you have to go through yourself to be able to fully described the act. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pressure makes diamonds - or not. ~ Stefan Emunds

Once you have endured sufferings, you can give someone strength. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. ~ Roy T. Bennett

Your attitude defines your results and dictates your experience. ~ Kyle Barger

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better. ~ Debbie Macomber

The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women! ~ Sid

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done. ~ Mark Twain

When people fail to recognize your work just don't give up yet. Because it's not always about the recognition, sometimes it's about the "passion" that we hold onto..!!! ~ Gowtham Gurunath

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress. ~ Epictetus

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience. ~ DaShanne Stokes

Life is like an ocean; an endlessly elegant dance between serenity and chaos. And while idly watching this can be so beautiful, that's not what life is for. Don't just stand on the shore… jump in! ~ Steve Maraboli

Hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid. ~ Caroline Knapp

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. ~ Eleanora Duse

The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The drive downtown is an experience unto itself. You're controlled by this dark energy that's about to take you to a place where you know you don't belong at this stage in your life. You get on the 101 freeway and it's night and it's cool outside. It's a pretty drive, and your heart is racing, your blood is flowing through your veins, an it's kind of dangerous, because the people dealing are cut-throat, and there are cops everywhere. It's not your neck of the woods anymore, now you're coming from a nice house in the hills, driving a convertible Camaro. ~ Anthony Kiedis

I would have to fill those little white rectangles with a lifetime of things that could generate happiness, contentment, satisfaction, or pleasure. I would have to fill them with every good experience I could summon up for a man whose powerless arms and legs meant he could no longer make them happen by himself. I had just under four months' worth of printed rectangles to pack with days out, trips away, visitors, lunches, and concerts. I had to come up with all the practical ways to make them happen, and do enough research to make sure that they didn't fail. And ~ Jojo Moyes

... This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer. ~ Martin Amis

I'm blind," he told the commoner. "I cannot see. That's how I knew what would matter to you and your family. I've got some experience making accommodations in this world." The gasp was loud. Wrath smiled a little. "Yeah, that Blind King title isn't just gossip. It's the God's honest-and I am not ashamed of it. ~ J.R. Ward

Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day. ~ Wayne Dyer

I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really alone. ~ Robert Maillet

Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix. ~ Susan Cain

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience. ~ Craig Kelly

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible. ~ Marc Forster

My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue. ~ Muhammad Yunus

There's nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It's like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out. ~ S.R. Crawford

The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers. ~ Dries Van Noten

Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It's the very same with sadness. And it's important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully? ~ Tarryn Fisher

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we're addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot. ~ Pema Chodron

In order to have a mountaintop experience, one must first have courage to leave the valley. ~ Bishop Harber

knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless ~ Shashidhar Sa

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ... by actually talking with them. ~ Daphne Koller

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. ~ Terence McKenna

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience. ~ Jim McKay

In the world "out there," there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That's what it means to be human. ~ Duranti A Alessandro

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. ~ Ryan Holiday

His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue. ~ Elizabeth Peters

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. ~ Allan Bloom

Stories that are truly successful are the ones where the protagonist is the bad, dirty one. The human story is a fairly dark one with painful and dangerous impulses that we all have. And that's coupled with a fortress-like psychology that most people have, protecting them from the awareness of the fact that they are part of this human experience ~ Ryan Blacketter

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience ... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it ... can be a shared experience. ~ James Taylor

I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his outbursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. How often have I seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain. ~ Willa Cather

There's a lot of "fiddle-faddle" wrapped up in that word "inspiration." It is the last resort of the lazy writer, of the man who would rather sit and dream than be up and doing. If the majority of writers who depend upon fiction for a livelihood were to wait for the spirit of inspiration to move them, the sheriff would happen along and tack a notice on the front door--while the writers were still waiting. ~ John Milton Edwards

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension. ~ Alexander Tsiaras

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Jase and I reached our goal after dating two years, ten months, and two days. But who's counting? We were! Whew! We made it!
That night was the first sexual experience either of us had ever had, and we have only known each other since then. Being pure and faithful to each other and to God is a top priority for us to this day. ~ Missy Robertson

as an artist, i do not always enjoy the questions, 'what were you thinking when you wrote this. what was the inspiration behind this.' these questions imply that there is always thought involved in creation. for me it is the exact opposite. creativity is the act of experiencing the unconscious in the conscious. sometimes, i want to say, without sarcasm, 'i do not know what my soul was thinking when i wrote that poem, i was too busy listening. ~ Nayyirah Waheed