This first-hand experience of nature was to have a profound influence on his life and work.

We've been to the places we promote, and can speak from first-hand experience!

Someone who experienced by watching or doing something himself is said to have first-hand experience.

They are the next best thing to first-hand experience.

But what she described was based on indisputable first-hand experience.

This advice comes from someone who has had first-hand experience.

His first-hand experience of Japanese politics goes back 15 years.

This first-hand experience benefited her in the next five years.

This tour provides students with first-hand experience of American culture and the education system.

This academy is designed to provide first-hand experience for its students who would like to work with children upon graduation.

I am a guy and have no direct experience of this.

It's just common sense that you ask the people with direct experience.

I have certain, positive knowledge from my own direct experience.

This I know, though of course not yet by direct experience.

And it is clearly not based on any direct experience of the man or his work.

I have no direct experience with what is described in the question.

In its place will be a direct experience of the Self.

I myself have no direct experience with this, I've only been reading about it.

"Few people in America have direct experience of his work," he said.

Probably few people in the country could have more direct experience than she had.

"If the prices only allow 5 percent of the public to have that live experience, aren't you going to lose the other 95 percent?"

But my team have recent live experience on an actual nuclear battlefield.

The following promotional video, from last year's festival, gives a feel for the live experience.

"I think people come to the theater to have a live experience."

They wanted to create the film to share the live experience with fans who could not afford concert tickets.

"It's really about our energy, the live experience," he added.

By this time, the band had already gained some live experience.

Recordings have also become more important as a replacement for the live experience.

A dialogue between one's live experience and the content of the documentary can then be developed.

The performance, too, often lacks the sort of tension that makes for a live musical experience.