Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Experience

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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.

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

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

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

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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Marx, Karl

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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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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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Storrs, R. 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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Mccormick, Terry