Quotes About Personal Experience

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

Julia Cameron

#2. When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Rory Kinnear

#3. Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Grant Cardone

#4. On my long list of hates about RPGs, one of them was, I always felt it was an unnecessary chore to make you care about a world when, in fact, what most players care about is their own personal experience.

Chris Avellone

#5. ...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience.
Elena (Bitten)

Kelley Armstrong

#7. I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Janice Dickinson

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

Karl Donitz

#9. 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz

#10. One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. 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.

Diana Krall

#12. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life.

Tom Rath

#13. Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Peg Kehret

#14. As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Buzz Aldrin

#15. Every worm has his weak spot,' as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. I'm speaking from personal experience when I say of any black man who conks today, or any white-wigged black woman, that if they gave the brains in their heads just half as much attention as they do their hair, they would be a thousand times better off.

Malcolm X

#17. While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

Jet Li

#18. I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Wilkie Collins

#19. I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

Ryan Reynolds

#20. We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

Brennan Manning

#21. All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Ayana Mathis

#22. Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Philip Greenspun

#23. The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Simon Sinek

#24. Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Billy Crudup

#25. A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Joseph Collins

#26. From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information.

Idries Shah

#27. Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

Gao Xingjian

#28. Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only increases in the presence of others. Run together and the oasis grows cooler and more satisfying.

Amby Burfoot

#29. I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Kyle MacLachlan

#30. Personal experience is the foundation of anything I write. What I leave up to the audience to decide is where fact ends and fiction begins.

Mark Baranowski

#31. No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

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

Todd Barry

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

Gwen Moore

#34. 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

#35. I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

Judy LaMarsh

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

William Barclay

#37. I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

Todd Gitlin

#38. I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.

America Ferrera

#39. The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is to say, they must be subjective.

Clive Bell

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

Bridgit Mendler

#41. I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Jens Lekman

#42. To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.

Thomas Merton

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

Henry Cavill

#44. This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Charles Spurgeon

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

David Bentley Hart

#46. The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

Debra Dean

#47. I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.

Will Arnett

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

Merrill J. Bateman

#49. -Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#50. People grow; people grow apart, and cancer ... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Justin Baldoni

#51. For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know if it is true. When we have done that, we can testify from personal experience to our friends that they can make that choice and know the same truth.

Henry B. Eyring

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

Francis Collins

#53. I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

Sune Rose Wagner

#54. All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

Robert Holdstock

#55. Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

Mary J. Blige

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

Sepp Blatter

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

Jim Rohn

#58. I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

Kate Zambreno

#59. The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

John Desmond Bernal

#60. Scared people did scary things sometimes, even kids. Sam knew that from personal experience. Fear could be dangerous. Fear could get people hurt. And there was nothing but fear running crazy through the school.

Michael Grant

#61. Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

Stanislav Grof

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

Lana Del Rey

#63. As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Rachel Weisz

#64. But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

Harry Houdini

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

Richard Bach

#66. No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

Carl Linnaeus

#67. you create your own personal experience of reality through your beliefs, expectations, attitudes, desires, fears, judgements, feelings, and consistent or persistent thoughts and actions.

Serge Kahili King

#68. Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.

Adrian Tomine

#69. This is all about knowing a market, ... and it's so thorough that even if you don't have personal experience in that market you can still go into it and find out, what are the things that people will pay money for!

Perry Marshall

#70. Moreover, even in the absence of accumulating personal experience, it was difficult to believe that soaring murder statistics reflected simply better record keeping, since it had always been hard to ignore a dead body.

Thomas Sowell

#71. Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience

Anatoliy Obraztsov

#72. Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

Orianthi

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

Bethenny Frankel

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#75. Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#76. We all know from our personal experience that we can be ourselves only in and through our world and there is a sense in which 'our' world will die with us although 'the' world will go on without us.

R.D. Laing

#77. Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

#78. Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

Stephen King

#79. There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.

Holly Golightly

#80. Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience.

Jim Lawless

#81. What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

Terence McKenna

#82. We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Steven Weber

#83. I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

Jeffrey Jones

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

Mark Twain

#85. The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there.

Esther Hicks

#86. I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

Tom Colicchio

#87. There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Heber J. Grant

#88. Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's fun as hell, a rush of adrenaline, until the inevitable crash comes where you leave and my heart splatters all over the ground.

Katie Kacvinsky

#89. Global warming is my personal experience.

Wang Shi

#90. Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.

Michael Grant

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

Caitlin Doughty

#92. I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

Doug Benson

#93. The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#94. A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Bethenny Frankel

#95. I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience.

Michael Moorcock

#96. I have personal experience, you might say. I know how one cowardly decision leads to another . . . and another . . . and another . . . until it's too late to turn around, too late to change. Mr.

Stephen King

#97. Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Mae Jemison

#98. Life is when awareness hides in the idea of personal experience.

Matthew Kahn

#99. Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

George VI

#100. Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

Jamaica Kincaid