Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Marx, Karl

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.

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, James

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

Barry LePatner

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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.

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Albert Camus

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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Johnson

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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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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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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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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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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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph