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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Billings, Josh

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Barry LePatner

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

Tracy, Brian

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Baldwin, James

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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 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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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Vernon Sanders Law