Quotes About Experience

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

can any organization really be sure of its strengths before it tests them? Every strategic change involves some new experience, a step into the unknown, the taking of some kind of risk. Therefore no organization can ever be sure in advance whether an established competence will prove to be a strength or a weakness.

Moreover, a single story from one disgruntled customer may be worth more than all those reams of market research data simply because, while the latter may identify a problem, it is the former that can suggest the solution.

while hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that builds wisdom.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it.

I'm twenty-three and I sound like I'm fifty-five.

I couldn't tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.

Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.

Have you ever experienced something so great That years later you regretted the whole thing Seeing the hole it left in you?

How lame it is for me to sit in some cushy living room watching Apocalypse Now, on videocassette no less. You think you have pain? That guy went up the river to kill a guy. I'm sitting in a suburban living room on a plush carpet with Search and Destroy tattooed on my back and I'm watching the real thing, it makes touring seem rather easy in comparison. I

There are a few things that are mine. I see this now. Like today, sitting in this diner. This time is mine. These thoughts are mine. Memories are mine. I don't own much. It's nice to know that there are some things that no one will be able to take from me.

It's the person who tells you they listen to a lot of different music with an almost resigned sigh of futility that you want to pay attention to because they know that at best, they'll only hear a small part of a tiny drop in the great ocean of music.