Quotes About Experience

at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.

He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

Quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia...

The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

It taught Carnegie a lesson he never forgot.

a vida é como um livro a cujo fim você não quer chegar. Talvez isso seja verdade, mas você está realmente interessado na leitura ou apenas com medo de que algo ruim lhe aconteça caso chegue à última página?

How strange it is our little perception of life. The child says 'when I am a big boy.. The big boy says When I grow up And grown up he says When I am married The thought then changes to When im able to retire. Then when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed, a cold wind seems to sweep over it. Somehow he has missed it all and it is gone, Life, we learn too long is in the living.

You are something new in this world. Be glad of it. Make the most of what nature gave you. In the last analysis, all art is autobiographical. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must cultivate your own little garden. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught

Lincoln guardou a carta pois aprendera, por meio de experiências amargas, que críticas duras e reprovações quase nunca geram algo de útil.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.

that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

customers like to feel that they are buying, not being sold.

When we talk about our mistakes, it makes us human.

You have made a mistake, Josephine," he would begin, "but Lord knows, it's no worse than many I have made.

you are better than I was at your age. I have been guilty of so many silly things myself

Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived.