Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Campbell, Joseph

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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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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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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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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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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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 largely non-transferable.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De