Firsthand Experience Quotes

#1. One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#3. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#4. On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

Gary Locke

#5. Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Antony Gormley

#6. If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

Stef Penney

#7. An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information.

Freeman Tilden

#8. If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Beck

#9. As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Jack Markell

#10. The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Chogyam Trungpa

#11. Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

Mark Batterson

#12. Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Jamie Ford

#13. [While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.

Marco Brambilla

#14. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.

Meiko

#15. Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures

Pedro Okoro

#16. There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.

Goo Hye Sun

#17. To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Edmund Burke

#18. New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.

Robert Pattinson

#19. Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

Lysa TerKeurst

#20. Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

John O. Brennan

#21. My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Benjamin Jowett

#22. It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.

Jan Kaplicky

#23. I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Harold Pinter

#24. The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer ... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Joe Nichols

#25. Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde

#26. The firsthand and the inter-generational experience, is the key, without it there is no memory once that first generation is gone.

Suzanna Eibuszyc

#27. I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

Willem Dafoe

#28. Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.

Diana Gabaldon

#29. Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole world sick. So, yes, I think I do know what is best for them. Certainly

Michael Crichton

#30. The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

Pierce Brosnan

#31. I'm learning to "master self" while rising from the ashes of madness.

Stanley Tookie Williams

#32. He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.

Josh Lanyon

#33. When you experience it firsthand, it isn't so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they're your godsend.

Colleen Hoover

#34. Love had found me again, brought me back to life in the land of the dead.

Sarah Diemer