Quotes About Experience

If you lack experience or a particular talent or skill and you don't want to pay the price to acquire it, then hire someone who has it to do the job for you.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

dissatisfied customer does not complain: he just switches.

Many customers form their opinions about the product or about the service solely by their contacts with the people that they see—contact men, I will call them.

Experience alone, without theory, teaches management nothing about what to do to improve quality and competitive position, nor how to do it.

Experience alone, without theory, teaches management nothing about what to do to improve quality and competitive position, nor how to do it. Experience will answer a question, and a question comes from theory.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe'sWe drank our liquor straight,Some went upstairs with Margery,And some, alas, with Kate.

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a windowOr just walking dully along.

Art is born of humiliation.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Americans thus proved themselves ready to remember an idealized version of the men who had fought the war while forgetting the actual people. At least in the minds of the politicians and the general public, the veterans represented a demographic small enough to forget. Such a mind-set has made the costs of the war, perhaps the experience of war itself, difficult for the United States to fully grasp.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.