Quotes About Experience

Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead

That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to great leaps in human understanding.

Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it, he told me. I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery.

intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

El viaje es la recompensa

school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a

We all—in the end—die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

they'd ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.

Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. So Johnson sent his first five store managers through the Ritz-Carlton training

innovación requiere contar con tres cosas como mínimo: una gran idea, el talento técnico para llevarla a cabo y la experiencia empresarial (además de la sangre fría para cerrar tratos) para convertirla en un éxito.

special trip to Japan with

stuck with him. He saw a calf being born, and he was amazed

NeXT and making Jobs its CEO. In the spoof Mike Markkula asked Jobs, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling UNIX with a sugarcoating, or change the world?" Jobs responded, "Because I'm now a father, I needed a steadier source of income." The release noted that "because of his experience at Next, he is expected to bring

but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

you just don't want someone else to control a big part of the user experience. People may disagree with me, but I am pretty consistent about that.

Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an "abacus school," Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an "unlettered man," as he dubbed himself with some irony. But he also took pride that his lack of formal schooling led him to be a disciple of experience and experiment.

They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should have only one entrance, which would make it easier to control the experience. And the Eddie Bauer store, they agreed, was too long and narrow. It was important that customers intuitively grasp the layout of a store as soon as they entered. There were no tech stores in the mall

Like Jobs, Wozniak learned a lot at his father's knee. But their lessons were different. Paul Jobs was a high school dropout who, when fixing up cars, knew how to turn a tidy profit by striking the right deal on parts. Francis

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.

Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.

I came to work with Steve for a week," Lin recalled.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.