Own Experience Quotes

193 Own Experience quotes by 171 unique authors

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything… — Lord Chesterfield
They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what… — Sri Aurobindo
Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very… — Diane Lane
I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who… — Lily Rabe
My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low… — Jack Markell
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. — Carolyn Mackler
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means… — St. Vincent
The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of… — Rollo May
The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience. — Peter Weiss
Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that… — Neale Donald Walsch
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience.… — Sue Monk Kidd
I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices. — Minka Kelly
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. — Reeve Carney
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes… — Ellen Forney
I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. — Jennifer Gilmore
I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a… — Christine Lagarde
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring… — Edgar Cayce
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that… — Anton Chekhov
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it… — Thomas Sowell
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story,… — Christopher Paolini
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material… — Stella Adler
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better.… — Stephen Covey
When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'. — Amy Dickinson

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