Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

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

Jagger, Mick

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Aldous Huxley

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

Camus, Albert

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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 should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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