Motivational Quotes

Experience

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

- Godwin, Gail

Best Quotes about Experience

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

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

Bax, Arnold

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Eliot, George

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Billings, Josh

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stern, Judith

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

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur