I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Both personal experience and professional studies of social processes, after all, had led me to think that people rarely accomplish exactly what… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
“An individual's torments only have meaning within his or her personal experience. Faced with the collective we are as naked and helpless… — Aldo Carotenuto Copy Share Image
We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience.… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Children must learn obedience, and parents must exact obedience from them. Love your children, let them know that you love them; but… — N. Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Or maybe he just rediscovered his humanity,” Niten said quietly. “Maybe someone reminded him that he is human first, immortal second.” “You… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. — John McCain Copy Share Image
“If you're reading this book, there is probably an artist or band whose music you have an intense personal relationship with. I… — Steven Hyden Copy Share Image
“What do we mean when we say “meaning”? For our purposes it’s not one thing, a single gem of wisdom. It’s the… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having… — Ruth Peterman Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The problem with memories is that they're not objective. One person's memory is another person's fiction. Everything is a matter of perception,… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
“When you listen to someone complaining, you are forced to acknowledge them as a human being instead of a category. You are… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
“At first she thought the writing would be easy. She was extremely confident in her ability to dream, to imagine, and she… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
