Greg Oden Quotes

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Most of what I've learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'