Quotes About Experience

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.

learn something, and grow wiser.

As messed up as my life was at times, I greatly appreciated my own unique life.

I've seen this play out over and over in my life: When emotion goes up, intelligence goes down.

School has conditioned us to avoid mistakes—and punishes students for making them. In the real world, I've learned that mistakes—if acknowledged and evaluated and used as a tool to make better decisions in the future—are invaluable. A little fear can be a healthy thing, but we shouldn't live in fear of making mistakes. Mistakes are good things, if we find the lesson in every failure.

There are many things I have done in the past that I am not proud of and would not do again.

I think the reason most fail in the first five years is due to lack of experience and lack of capital. The reason the one survivor often fails in the second five years isn't due to lack of capital, but lack of energy.

that it is not so much a matter of college degrees or good grades that count.

Now that I am older and hopefully wiser, I more fully appreciate

As a result, he is overqualified for the jobs he currently has

The problem was that he couldn't find an equivalent job that recognized his seniority from the old company.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun.

That is why I found school so silly. In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down.

many financial advisors are not rich nor are they successful investors.

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it. – Richard Feynman

The elderly will tell you that although their bodies have aged and their minds have changed, their witness is much the same as always. Even in old age, it remains a young upstart voice—detached, observant, occasionally rude. Whether ignored or embraced, the witness continues to whisper the truth to us as long as we live.

Siento que la vida exige emociones, no reflexiones.

Vivamos primero, que las observaciones vendrán luego por sí solas.

A person can be utterly foolish and unknowing: as long as he knows the way to adapt, to be flexible, and how to move about, he still is not lost, but will come through life better perhaps than someone who is clever and stuffed with knowledge.

Sevgili kardeÅŸim ÅŸu anda bir hiçsin. Fakat genç iken insan zaten bir hiç olmal? çünkü hiç bir ÅŸey erkenden anlam kazanmak kadar y?k?c? olamaz.

regarding your willingness to learn, even at your age. I even remind you of one of my favorite statements, a bit of wisdom from Henry Ford, a man whom many would say is among history's greatest inventors: "Anyone who keeps learning stays young." How's that for a sweet promise?

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.