Top 1200 Personal Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into their work. The fact is that telling a story is a transformative experience. There is rarely a one-to-one translation onto the page unless you're writing memoir, and even then, memory is unreliable. I think that the best books feel emotionally true, and that truth has to be rooted in real-world experience.

I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

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 not so linear.

Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

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 a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

People like to say that Plutarch's is a really "personal" voice, but in truth Plutarch tells us very little about his life. His voice is personable but never personal. It feels intimate because he's addressing the world as we experience it, at this level, a human level, rather than way up here where very few of us live.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

From my own personal experience, I can tell you that things I achieved in the J2 league meant a lot to me.

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

The atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.