Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Tracy, Brian

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Barry LePatner

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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

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Stern, Judith

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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