Top 100 Personal Experiences Quotes

#1. Personal experience is the surest method by which one can determine the truth of a supposition, no matter how reputable the reporter, since so many experiences are subject to individual proclivities.

Nick Offerman

#2. 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.

Jeffery Deaver

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

Sune Rose Wagner

#4. Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

Christopher Lasch

#5. It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences.

Joel T. McGrath

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

Kumail Nanjiani

#7. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#8. Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.

Reese Witherspoon

#9. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

Stephen Graham

#11. My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

N.R. Walker

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

Byllye Avery

#13. Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Melissa Etheridge

#15. 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.

Pixie Lott

#16. 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.

Kate Voegele

#17. 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.

Ken Marino

#18. The most important attitude, when we propose ourselves to learn something, is to be prepared to leave our present identity behind, in our beliefs and way we handle personal experiences.

Daniel Marques

#19. Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Stephen Covey

#20. We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gathering appropriate learning experiences and awakening our minds to observe, evaluate, and recall what we experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it ... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

Andrea Corr

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

Antony Beevor

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

Martin Luther

#25. ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

Robert Cheeke

#26. ...personal experiences are probably the most convincing reason to believe for any individual who has had them.

Lewis N. Roe

#27. I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

James Bay

#28. Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

Kelly Link

#29. The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#30. The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

Daphne Oz

#31. A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.

Frederick Lenz

#32. 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.

E. M. Forster

#33. Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Bill Johnson

#34. Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities.

R.M. Jones

#35. The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

Steve Grand

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

Frederick Lenz

#37. The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#38. If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

Natalie Portman

#39. The most important component of the system of Reiki at any level is one's own daily personal practice, meditation and self-healing. This is the foundation from which all healing experiences with the animals will
grow.

Kathleen Prasad

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

William James

#41. Rather than simply telling them what to do and demanding that they conform to your requests, you'll be giving them experiences that strengthen their executive functions and develop skills related to empathy, personal insight, and morality.

Daniel J. Siegel

#42. We can only become a better person if we have the inclination and the resolve, only if we accept that life is a learning curve and all experiences add something to our personality.

Balroop Singh

#43. Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

A.S.A Harrison

#44. She is but one small speck in a cosmos that is forever changing, and one's position in the world can be only measured by the experiences of an unbridled life that is personal, and beautiful, and hers.

Christina Escamilla

#45. Your Personal identity created by the experiences of the past, simply floats on the awareness field of the mind, while all the important tasks of life, is performed by the subtle strings of the spirit.

Roshan Sharma

#46. My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

Jean Craighead George

#47. 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.

Michio Kaku

#48. When we connect with our personal authenticity and truth, the vitality that is triggered becomes an eternal spring of regenerative passion that continues to expand our experience.

Heidi Reagan

#49. 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.

Greg Graffin

#50. The key to long-term success in life is your education and skills, your life experiences, and most of all, your personal character.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#51. 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.

Jim Gaffigan

#52. Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

Gary Paulsen

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

Joseph Cornell

#54. No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview - the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

Seth Godin

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

Michel Ocelot

#56. In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

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

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#58. You are the architect of your personal experience.

Shirley Maclaine

#59. All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Sanford Biggers

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

Rebecca Ferguson

#61. Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

D.T. Suzuki

#62. Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#63. Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his business-I won't get into that, but he knows a lot about it as well. So, we took some real life experiences that we both-I've been told that I have OCD.

Antoine Fuqua

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

William James

#65. Negative experiences lower our personal vibrations and we feel bad. This state attracts more negative experiences leading to negative vibrations. Lower vibes are bad for health of the soul.

Hina Hashmi

#66. 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.

Temple Grandin

#67. 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.

Paul Wellstone

#68. 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.

Joe Carnahan

#69. 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.

Avril Lavigne

#70. My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me

Gauri Khan

#71. The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

Hannibal Buress

#72. We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Shaun Fleming

#74. 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.

Harry Styles

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

Mary Pope Osborne

#76. Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

Jan Chipchase

#77. Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.

Sam Owen

#78. The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

Asa Don Brown

#79. A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

Gerhard Richter

#80. Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Frederick Lenz

#81. It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.

Caroline Myss

#82. 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.

Jason Mraz

#83. I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

Juliana Hatfield

#84. Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.

William Barclay

#85. Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

Raquel Cepeda

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

Kevin Bacon

#87. Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Sheri Fink

#88. So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to ... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#89. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#90. The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

David Bentley Hart

#91. When people we love and trust do not have a map of reality that is wide enough to fit our experiences, they often feel afraid for us. In their efforts to limit perceived harm, they end up instead limiting and inhibiting our personal growth.

Therese Rowley

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

L. Lionel Kendrick

#93. What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Terry Tempest Williams

#94. My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

Lana Del Rey

#95. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

Sonia Sotomayor

#96. Reflections, Musings and reviewing personal experiences through different angles of light... What is inside us is out there as well. (Zoltan Galos)

Z.J. Galos

#97. 'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

Brian Keene

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

David Rockwell

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

Sonia Sotomayor

#100. Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.

Renae A. Sauter

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