Quotes About Experience

The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

trading is not about discovering a great strategy for making money but rather a matter of learning how to lose.

Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.—UNKNOWN

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I broke my arm in 3 places so I wont be going back to those places.

Life for all its gains pierces in ways that leave scars, where I've bled, I've lived

A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.

When we can learn from our own problems, we begin to deal with life. When we can learn from other people's problems, we begin to master life.

Problems can only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment can only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

A journey should never be judged by the destination or mode of transportation. It should be judged by the friends who accompany us on the trip.

worth is more than money, and your value is far beyond what you realize. I have never believed that we are human beings seeking a spiritual experience. Instead, I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The most talented, gifted,

Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves who we are. Just like a beautiful flower garden will look totally different in daylight as opposed to dark, the memories of our past are held hostage by our perspective.

The journey of life is a matter of traveling well rather than reaching a destination.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying.

So how do we educate the heart? There are really only two ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. Great preachers and teachers—Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus—have traditionally used stories to get their lesson plans across, educating both the mind and the heart.

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.