#personal experience

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#directly #easily #experience #had #i

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#conception #dead #experience #experiences #gain

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#good #good things #how #know #people

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#anyone #care #close #else #even

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#certain #experience #i #interest #kill

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

— Edith Wharton

#counselor #does #experience #life #moral

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#both #combine #cross #divide #experiences

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#athletic #experience #feed #feel #going

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. ↗

— Todd Barry

#bring #celebrity #classy #experience #i

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first