Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Bax, Arnold

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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Billings, Josh

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

Getty, J. Paul

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Barry LePatner

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Camus, Albert