Motivational Quotes

Experience

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

- Fun, Brigham Young

Best Quotes about Experience

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Doctorow, E. L.

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Barry LePatner

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Fun, Brigham Young

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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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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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Stern, Judith

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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.