Personal Experiences Quotes - Page 2

• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Mean, Past

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Art, Imagination, Creeps

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• I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Unanswered Questions, Lessons

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• There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Home, Experience

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

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• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Real, Done

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• I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

  Brittany Snow

  Best Friend, Suicide, School

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• Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Judging, Facts, Latina Women

  "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Sonia Sotomayor, www.nytimes.com. 2001.

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

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Mistake, Women

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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

  Miranda Lambert

  Writing, Bits

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

  Cameron Diaz

  Want, Firsts, Film

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

  John Trudell

  Writing, People, Observation

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Water, Comfort, Want

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Rebecca Ferguson

  People, Albums, Firsts

  "Rebecca Ferguson Finds Heaven Everywhere". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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