(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for hi...
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, and then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this. But while grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. Once a man has come to this unde...
The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out to others. We discover a feeling that is so rewa...
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 ...
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
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.
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.
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
