Quotes About Experience

As your affection for me can only proceed from your experience and conviction of my fondness for you (for to talk of natural affection is talking nonsense), the only return I desire is, what it is chiefly your interest to make me; I mean your invariable practice of virtue, and your indefatigable pursuit of knowledge. Adieu! and be persuaded that I shall love you extremely, while you deserve it; but not one moment longer.

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 editions of them.

For centuries, it hobbled progress in medicine. When physicians finally accepted that their experience and perceptions were not reliable means of determining whether a treatment works, they turned to scientific testing—and medicine finally started to make rapid advances. The same revolution needs to happen in forecasting.

My research collaborator Don Moore points out that police officers spend a lot of time figuring out who is telling the truth and who is lying, but research has found they aren't nearly as good at it as they think they are and they tend not to get better with experience. That's because experience isn't enough. It must be accompanied by clear feedback.

Predictably, psychologists who test police officers' ability to spot lies in a controlled setting find a big gap between their confidence and their skill. And that gap grows as officers become more experienced and they assume, not unreasonably, that their experience has made them better lie detectors. As a result, officers grow confident faster than they grow accurate, meaning they grow increasingly overconfident.

effective learning from experience can't happen without clear feedback, and you can't have clear feedback unless your forecasts are unambiguous and scorable. Sound familiar? It should. Drezner cited an article about the IARPA tournament.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

A life well lived is the best antidote to that fatal truth. Be active, not a passive worrywart. Find magic in the moment, joy in making someone smile. Listen to a lover's sigh; look into the dancing eyes of a child you made feel special. Most of all, marvel at the wonder that eons of evolutionary time and all your unique experiences have joined to comprise the symphony that is YOU.

Einstein himself is reported to have said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

It's not the destination it's the glory of the ride.

The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying.

I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

Life, not lectures, inspires us to change.

it seems to me that the merit of any belief can be judged by the lengths people go to defend it. Poor, incomprehensible beliefs demand rigorous support. Defying reason and experience, they require the muscle of state and religion to maintain. Conversely, when a belief is so observably and obviously true, when it resonates with our experience, when it transcends cultures and eras, it requires no defense.

some lesssons couldn't be taught, only learned.

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Yet 'homosexual soldiers were very brave warriors … [and] homosexual officers were especially noted for their kindly treatment of the men entrusted to them'. It was a phenomenon borne out by the experience and practice of officers such as Sassoon and Owen.

Ideology is not simply an idea reproduced by individuals though a system of representation. Rather, it is a lived experience.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

experience I was keen to repeat. Meanwhile, Kaltenbrunner

I had a second drink to wipe out the raw taste of the first.

Similarly, we do not believe that the online "new wave" marketing will ultimately replace the offline "legacy" marketing. In fact, we believe that they need to coexist to deliver the best customer experience.

En el proceso de decisión de compra hay tres factores esenciales que influyen en los consumidores: en primer lugar, la comunicación de marketing de las empresas en diversos medios, como los anuncios de televisión, la publicidad impresa o las relaciones públicas; en segundo lugar, las opiniones de sus amigos y familiares, y en tercer lugar, su conocimiento previo y su actitud personal hacia ciertas marcas por sus experiencias pasadas.