Motivational Quotes

Experience

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

- Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Dylan, Bob

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Stern, Judith

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Jagger, Mick

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Marx, Karl

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

Tracy, Brian

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Franklin, Benjamin