Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Butterworth, Eric

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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 praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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 fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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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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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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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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