Top 1200 Personal Experiences Quotes & Sayings

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

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 can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

Practice is personal; no two people's experiences are alike.

I write about personal experiences.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

Getting up for sadhana in the morning is a totally selfish act - for personal strength, for personal intuition, for personal sharpness, for personal discipline, and overall for absolute personal prosperity.

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

The time that I spent overseas working as a model, all of those experiences influenced my personality and personal taste.

I made 'Free Game' based on personal experiences, what I been through, my life, exposing people to the fact that I'm in the streets.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

I share my personal experiences of what is right according to me in a particular situation.

I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions.