Own Experience Quotes

193 Own Experience quotes by 171 unique authors

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. — Jim Garrison
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. — Allen Ginsberg
I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed… — Ani DiFranco
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not… — Elizabeth Edwards
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world… — Patton Oswalt
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you… — Charlie Parker
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out… — Colin Powell
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather… — Susan Sontag
I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any… — Daniel Tammet
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience. — Christopher Walken
Everybody is determined by his own experience. — Andrew Young
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. — Francis Collins
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters… — Michael Ende
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then… — Orson Scott Card
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in… — Rajneesh
But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior… — Isaac Asimov
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves,… — Jack London
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's… — Aleister Crowley
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… — Virginia Woolf
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.… — Flannery O'Connor
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when… — Jim Butcher
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

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