Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Italian

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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The fool knows after he's suffered.