Shaping Experiences Quotes

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

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

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

What you were is forever who you are.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.

My mom was a rapper and she really shaped me as a woman, and the music that she was letting me listen to as a child really pushed me in the direction that I'm going in right now.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.

We are who we are because of who we were

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.