Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

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Best Quotes about Experience

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.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Billings, Josh

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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 comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Reagan, Ronald

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