Personal Experiences Quotes - Page 8

• My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Book, Stories

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ideas, Experience, No Idea

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

  Miranda Lambert

  Writing, Bits

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• 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

  War, Distance, Fighting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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

  Gwen Moore

  Apples, Pie, Violence

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• Every person, young and old, has had his own personal experience with falling. Falling is what we mortals do. But as long as we are willing to rise up again and continue on the path toward the spiritual goals God has given us, we can learn something from failure and become better and happier as a result. My dear friends, no matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up! Your destiny is a glorious one! Stand tall and walk in the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine. You can do it now!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Jesus, Fall

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• I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

  Ann Druyan

  Ideas, Information, Complicated

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• 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

  Half, Dozen, Archives

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• One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Independent, Winning

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

  John Ridley

  Black, Littles, Tire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Ignorance, Men

  "Doubts About Darwinism". The Illustrated London News, July 17, 1920.

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• Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.

  Caroline Emelia Stephen

  Believe, Inspiration, Heart

  Caroline Emelia Stephen (1890). “Quaker Strongholds”

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• It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. The Book of Mormon gives us the certain assurance of His power to comfort. And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Book, Giving, Waiting

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• 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

  Sympathy, Education, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume
  this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Men, Listening

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

  Kevin Bacon

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2013.

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

  Shaun Fleming

  Song, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Michael B. Jordan

  Trying, Acting, Roles

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

  Joseph Cornell

  Children, Remember, Direct

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• The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Book, Leader, Feelings

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• 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

  Book, Zoologist, Changed

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• 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

  New York, Thinking, Tvs

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• What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.

  George Sweeting

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

  Albert Einstein

  Theory, Results, Mankind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.361, Princeton University Press

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