Personal Experiences Quotes - Page 3

• I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

  Salman Khan

  Struggle, Son, Brain

  "The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart" by Salman Khan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2014.

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• The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

  Steve Grand

  Song, Art

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

  Michel Ocelot

  Hero, Belief, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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• We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.

  Robert A. Burton

  Doctors, Ideas, Differences

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

  Gao Xingjian

  Gao Xingjian (2010). “Soul Mountain”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.

  Johnny Reid

  Artist, Self, People

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Past, Years, Experts

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• For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

  Stefan Zweig

  Play, Listening, Nerves

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wise, Lying, Communication

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• 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

  Writing, Important, Different

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.

  Josip Novakovich

  Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia

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• The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Focus

  "Vaclav Havel's Dissident Criticism" by Peter Lawler, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Mother, Impact, Practice

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

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• Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Real, Persistence

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• My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Believe, Understanding

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• 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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• I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief - even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe - even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent - in the existence of a mystery.

  Iris Origo

  Grief, Believe, Suffering

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• Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

  James H. Austin

  Simple, Everyday, Experience

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.12, MIT Press

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  Vernon Lee

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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