Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tracy, Brian

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Albert Camus

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Camus, Albert

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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.