Motivational Quotes

Experience

The more experiments you make the better.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Barry LePatner

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Stern, Judith

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Billings, Josh

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

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Law, Vernon S.

31.

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 you get when you were expecting something else.

33.

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Godwin, Gail