Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is largely non-transferable.

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Camus, Albert

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.