Quotes About Experience

The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a posey of observations as they grew; and if some rue and wormwood be found among the sweeter herbs, their wholesomeness will make amends for their bitterness.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

It's good to remember where you've been.

Experience is like rhubarb. You got to add sugar to make a pie.

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Anyone can publish a book. Anyone can be an author. But, not everyone has the authority, authenticity or expertise.

Just because they came through an experience, doesn't mean they have the experience or ability to help someone else.

Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.

The honor of your presentation, execution, experience, and growth will do much more for you and your career over false claims that have no substance yet."

To me, artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT used by those with wisdom, knowledge and experience can authentically enhance the distribution of intelligence and information in a positive way. Though when used by deceptive, unexperienced and greedy fools... it can be a dangerous tool.

The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.

contar historias es justamente esto: encontrar la conexión que logra reunir a los seres humanos más allá del tiempo y el espacio

Ningún hombre que se muera sin haber llorado alguna vez frente al mar puede decir que ha vivido.

El alma es la suma de las cosas que uno ha vivido antes de hacerse un canalla escéptico" La flaqueza del bolchevique, capítulo XI

only those who have risked going out too far can possibly learn just how far one can actually go?

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

It's an impossible situation. We need to stick together in the face of this rampant affirmative action that lauds skin color over experience.