- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Direct Experience Quotes
Learning by living it firsthand.
Direct experience teaches lessons that secondhand knowledge simply can't, whether it's a writer researching a subject or a generation shaped by war, and these quotes make that case. They connect with quotes about being Able to truly understand something.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
- Clouds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020