There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.
I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.
My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules. . . That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
Adventure is a path. . . Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.
As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
I cannot tell you. . . how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful. . . It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.
After 911, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.