Personal Experiences Quotes - Page 10

• You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  People, Really Deep, Novel

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.

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• I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• 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

  Want, Feels, Generalization

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• I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Media

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• 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

  Stories, Draws, Day Life

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• 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

  Over You, Cameras, Magazines

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

  Richard Bach

  School, You Choose, Consequence

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• Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

  William Barclay

  Christianity

  "The Apostles' Creed".

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• I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Character, Trying, Acting

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• 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

  Spring, Thinking, Imagination

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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

  Lana Del Rey

  Messages, My Own

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

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• Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

  Albert Bandura

  Dysfunction, Self, Problem

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• After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Peace, Hands, Goal

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• The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large.

  Mark Powell

  Important, Phrases, Blogging

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

  Bill Johnson

  Concepts

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Book, Choices, Done

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• By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

  Bob Harper

  Issues, Parent, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Memories, Emotional

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• And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Rights, Government

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• Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

  Susan Cheever

  Heart, Soul, Brain

  Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.

  Ibn Hazm

  Heart, Love Is, Reality

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Growing Knowledge, Progress

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• 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

  House, Haunting, Spirit

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins: The Best Short Fiction from the English writer, known for his mystery novels The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife and many more…”, p.650, e-artnow

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