Quotes About Experience

I live so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

But it's like time is sort of Ã¢â'¬Â¦ balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.

This is what happens on journeys—the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

He remembered that part like you'd remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn't like it happened to you.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what do we need to do to learn from our experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over, and move on?

Une première fois n'est neuve que de la vérité de son désir que de se vouloir miséricorde et bonté mutuelle, qu'importe une première fois

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Mysticism is the most scientific form of religion, for it bases itself, as does all science, on experience and experiment—experiment being only a specialised form of experience, devised either to discover or to verify.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Experience can be an effective teacher. But, clearly, only some students listen to their teachers.

Self-serving bias has immediate and obvious consequences for our ability to learn from experience.

A necessary part of becoming a better decision-maker is learning from experience. Experience contains the lessons for improving future decisions. Resulting causes you to learn the wrong lessons.

Experience is supposed to be our best teacher, but sometimes we draw a connection between outcome quality and decision quality that is too tight.

Experience is necessary for learning. But we process that experience in a biased way. This means that the very feedback you need to become a better decision-maker can interfere with your ability to learn good lessons from experience.

A lot of experience can be an excellent teacher. A single experience, not so much. Looking across a large enough set of decisions and outcomes, we can start to tease out the lessons experience might offer us. Looking at just one outcome, we get resulting and hindsight bias.

The actual outcome casts a shadow over your ability to remember what you knew at the time of the decision.

Pete Carroll was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome. Poker players have a word for this: "resulting." When I started playing poker, more experienced players warned me about the dangers of resulting, cautioning me to resist the temptation to change my strategy just because a few hands didn't turn out well in the short run.

When people complained that Nate Silver did his job poorly because he had Clinton favored, I thought, "Those people haven't gotten all their chips in a pot with a pair against a straight draw and lost." Or, more likely, they've had those things happen throughout their lives and didn't realize that's what 30% or 40% feels like.

A lot of experience can be an excellent teacher. A single experience, not so much.