Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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 isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Billings, Josh

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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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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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 fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.