Quotes About Firsthand

'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

As a doctor, I saw firsthand the problems many patients face finding a doctor, navigating the system, and paying their health care bills.

Gather firsthand information, ask questions.

In most of my music it's firsthand experience, and some of the same rules apply in TV. The difference in music is the control, whereas doing this, it's someone else's words that you can play in your own way.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don't invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

I have only written what I experienced, what I saw, what I learned first-hand.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.

I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.

4. Eyewitness testimony supports historical claims. Eyewitness testimony is usually stronger than a secondhand account.

In my Toyota interviews, when I asked what distinguishes the Toyota Way from other management approaches, the most common first response was genchi gembutsu—whether I was in manufacturing, product development, sales, distribution, or public affairs. You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself firsthand. It is unacceptable to take anything for granted or to rely on the reports of others.

As a dentist and representative, I have seen firsthand the need to make our healthcare system both more accessible and affordable.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

I want to keep going to new audiences and showing people firsthand how great NJPW is.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it. It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication.

We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

He described the three riots he had witnessed firsthand, in three different cities. He made the anger of the poor and put-upon sound like a storm on the ground; it scorched buildings when it woke, its first touch killed.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.