All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about… — Caroline Myss 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
What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything.… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of… — George VI Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that.… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal… — Patsy Mink Copy Share Image
By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just… — James Bay Copy Share Image
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We really throw ourselves into our work and the details from your life show up from time to time in the finished… — Nathan Greno Copy Share Image
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni:… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have… — Byron York Copy Share Image
In my own personal experience in my life, people that I argue with or have confrontations with are the people I love… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience.… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
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