Motivational Quotes

Experience

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Experience

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Russell, Bertrand

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha