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.
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.
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.
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.
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.
Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls. . . I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.
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.
Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
Adventure is a path. . . Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
[While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.
I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
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.
