Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Stern, Judith

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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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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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 a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Tracy, Brian

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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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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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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 largely non-transferable.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Law, Vernon S.