Own Experience Quotes

193 Own Experience quotes by 171 unique authors

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my… — Jane Lynch
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people,… — James Taylor
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a… — Suzanne Vega
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are… — Stanton T. Friedman
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own. — Bruce Lee
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Dan Inosanto
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will… — Rajneesh
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very… — E T A Hoffmann
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the… — John Cage
One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit… — Jason Priestley
We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where… — Esther Hicks
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source… — Elaine Pagels
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience… — Peter Brook
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of… — James Schuyler
My own experience as a person with blood type O was that my health, strength, and vitality significantly improved when I became a vegetarian ...… — Gabriel Cousens
In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will… — Jim Elliot
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional. — Samuel Mockbee
In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is… — Jack Kornfield
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for… — Jack Kornfield

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