Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Jagger, Mick

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bax, Arnold

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Marx, Karl

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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 largely non-transferable.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Barry LePatner

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

Camus, Albert

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.