E Quotes
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“Experience alone is not enough. It isn’t automatic. You must get feedback and introspect and slowly your values get crystallized. It’s a fun journey and a wonderful place to be. Because it’s all about knowing yourself and the world around you and that knowledge is true power.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.”
“Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.”
“Experience and suffering
are the mother of wisdom.”
“Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.”
“Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.”
Source: Against Method
“Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.”
“Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.”
“Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.”
Source: The federalist papers
“Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.”
“Experience brings acceptance of the fact you cannot do everything yourself. I find people who start business later in life understand the value in surrounding themselves with people who are better than them at some things. Experience shows you the benefit of accepting advice from others.”
Source: Trust is the New Currency: How to build trust, attract the right partners and create wealth through business and investments
“Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.”
“Experience by itself is not science.”
“Experience by itself teaches nothing.”
Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
“Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.”
“Experience can birth skill if you are aware of how your mind reacts to situations.”
“Experience can birth skill if you are aware of how your mind reacts to situations. Practice watching your mind when everything is fine, and it can help you to keep calm when problems arise.”
“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).”
Source: The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy
“Experience comes from bad judgment.”
“Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.”
Source: Thinking About Management
“Experience comes in two different flavors: your own and the experience of others. Most people can learn from their own experiences quite well, but many people simply ignore the experiences and lessons of others.”
“Experience, common sense, and intuition are not obsolete in the computer age. In fact, they could very well be more crucial now than ever.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
“Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.”
“Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.”
“Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.”
Source: Table-talk
“Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.”
“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
“Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.”
“Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.”
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.”
“Experience does not make you perfect, training makes you perfect because an experience without training remains inexperienced”
“Experience does not whisper truths; it shouts them, loud enough to shatter our illusions.”
“Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.”
Source: The Psychology of Computer Programming
“Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.”
Source: Memorials: In 2 Vol
“Experience, endure, learn, and keep on dancing with the souls and hearts of those around us through this theater we all call Life.
Go after ‘scary things' with your last breath. Face your demons. Speak your truth. Forgive.
Love deeply, travel lightly, live passionately, and don't forget to breathe.
Fall and surrender. Face your true self in the world's mirror — and in the end... let go...”
“Experience every failure closely because each failure is taking you closer to your goal and preparing you to be the unbeatable.”
“Experience everything but cling to what is right.”
“Experience everything;
Times of sorrow, times of Joy.
Times of darkness, times of light.
Times of lost heart, times of hope.
Times of hate, times of love.
Times of pain , times of peace.
Times of distress, times of dancing.
Times of sickness, times of recover of strength.
Times of lost, times of finding the way.
Times of wandering, times of wonder.
Times of failure, times of success.
Times of fall, times of rise.
Time of sowing, times of harvesting.
Times of injury , times of healing.
Times of waiting, times of fulfilled wish.
Times of praying, times of receiving the promise.
Times of ploughing, times of planting.
Times of dreaming, times of working to achieve the dream.
Times of doubt, times of Faith.”
“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.”
Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes
“Experience first, then intellectualize.”
“Experience G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E. at a deeper level... Give it... Receive it... Affirm it... Think it... Inspire it in others... Talk about it... Understand it... Dream it... Experience it in everything you do.”
“Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Experience gives the greatest lessons of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.”