Personal Experience Quotes

140 Personal Experience quotes by 131 unique authors

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually,… — Roddy Doyle
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as… — Kate Voegele
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of… — Vaclav Havel
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. — Frederick Lenz
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had… — Gerhard Richter
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me… — Billy Crudup
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is… — Janice Dickinson
Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes… — Bernard Goldberg
I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that… — Jamie Campbell Bower
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say… — Todd Gitlin
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the… — Harry Connick, Jr.
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start… — Jeffrey Jones
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and… — Mae Jemison
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of… — Stanislav Grof
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. — Chaka Khan
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I… — Chaka Khan
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your… — Jeff VanderMeer
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with… — Tom Colicchio
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He… — E. M. Forster
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is… — Diana Krall
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and… — Joyce Meyer
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me… — Joyce Meyer
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. — John Stuart Mill
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of… — David Ogilvy

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