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Personal experience
«Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.»
Author: Christina Baldwin
| Keywords:
blinders, cultural, Personal experience, psychological, view as, world view
«In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
consent, critical, Critical thinking, Personal experience, persuade, persuasiveness
«Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Experience,
Life
| Keywords:
counselor, Personal experience, Real part, tissue, tissues
«Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
adventure, consistently, creative, daily, day after day, enormous, experiences, ineffective, openness, peripheral, personal, Personal experience, potential, produced, regularly, requires, security, synergy, unused, unused to
«Cause to me, it's, there's nothing that's personal and private, it's all universal. There's no experience that I have ever had that's unique. And the fact that there is just certain stuff that we share but don't admit to and don't talk about. You know, what is that about?»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, personal, Personal experience, private, share, stuff, talk about, unique, universal
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
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«Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
construction, constructions, cosmos, emotional, narrow, Personal experience, pivot, pivots, security, whirlpool
«Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
aspiring, avoids, Buddhism, characteristics, cosmic, covers, dogmas, expected, Personal experience, theology, The Natural, The Spiritual, transcends, unity
«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.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
come over, Personal experience, persuasive, valid
«All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
honestly, ours, over again, Personal experience, take root, Thousands