Top 38 Quotes About First Hand Experience
#1. You know in most fantasy books the main meat is venison? Ever wonder how it tastes? I can tell you from first hand experience that venison tastes delicious. So does roasted duck, lamb and mutton.
Katie Thornton-K.
#2. I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.
Kevin Benderman
#3. The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn Underhill
#4. I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.
Edgar Mitchell
#5. If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
C.S. Lewis
#6. Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks
#7. More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures ... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.
Nitin Sawhney
#8. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
Frank M. Wanderer
#9. I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
Klaus Schwab
#10. When the evening shadows and the stars appear,
And there is no one there to dry your tears,
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love.
Adele
#11. It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
Chris Kilham
#12. The head alone knows what dwells near the heart.
Anonymous
#13. I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
Joseph Goebbels
#14. This first part may be a little rough.' He waved a hand and did his best to appear as if he'd had enormous experience with levitating buildings.
Michael Pryor
#15. In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.
August Krogh
#16. Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
Dave Obey
#17. The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.
Alexander McCall Smith
#18. I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
Jay Hernandez
#19. I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
Edwidge Danticat
#20. Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?
Kate Tempest
#21. Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#22. I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
George Miller
#23. I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes.
Anousheh Ansari
#24. No wonder you get along with so many kinds of people, Foster. Look at all this heritage that's part of you. That's something to be proud of.
Joan Bauer
#25. Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!
Meg Cabot
#26. It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#27. Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets ... at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.
Kate Hudson
#28. I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
Moby
#29. Let go of the thoughts,
let go of the mind,
let go of everything.
Let go!
Drop it!
Drop everything.
Hold onto nothing.
Robert Adams
#31. I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
Peter S. Beagle
#32. The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.
Gregory Bateson
#33. In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
#34. Otis," I said.
"Shhh," he said. "I'm incognito. Call me...Otis."
"I'm not sure that's how incognito works, but okay."
Otis, aka Otis climbed into the chair I'd reserved for Sam.
Rick Riordan
#35. I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
Kathleen Winsor
#36. There is nobody as brave as a baby taking his/her first non-stop 5 steps alone from Mummy's hand to daddy's hand ... trust me on that
Sameh Elsayed
#38. Please, for the love of all that is good:
Visit the countries you choose to defend, before you defend them.
Experience first hand the cultures you chose to defend, before you defend them.
Take part in the religions you tell others about, before you tell others about them.
Keith Hebner
