Quotes About Experience

I've learned that if you want people to be impressed, you can talk about your successes; but if you want people to identify with you, it's better to talk about your failures.

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

Helen Keller said, "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose." It also makes them think they don't need to learn.

Se dice que un individuo sabio aprende de sus errores, uno más sabio aprende de los errores de los demás, pero el más sabio aprende del éxito de los demás. Hoy

A mistake is only a failure if you don't learn from it. —ROLAND NIEDNAGEL

Eleanor Roosevelt acknowledged, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

So why do some people emerge as leaders while others can't influence no matter how hard they try? I believe that several factors come into play: 1. Character—who they are 2. Relationships—who they know 3. Knowledge—what they know 4. Intuition—what they feel 5. Experience—where they've been 6. Past Success—what they've done 7. Ability—what they can do

Experience isn't the best teacher—evaluated experience is.

it's not over until you've learned from it.

Too many leaders are like bad travel agents. They send people places they have never been. Instead, they should be more like tour guides, taking people places they have gone and sharing the wisdom of their own experiences.

DON'T COUNT LOSSES—INSTEAD, COUNT LESSONS

Everyone is important, but everyone isn't equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.

But what price do you put on a great memory?

Creo que cada experiencia tiene algo que enseñarnos, pero muchos fallan en aprender de las suyas porque se enfocan en las pérdidas más que en las lecciones.

Un fracasado es una persona que hace las cosas mal pero que no es capaz de sacar beneficio de la experiencia.. —ELBERT HUBBARD

The ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.

Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. —H. STANLEY JUDD

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. That part of their experience that is distinct and separate, the totality of the years before they met, is changed, is redirected toward this moment. They feel they have reached an identical point of intensity, an ecstasy of rightness that they command in every part, and any recollection that occurs to them takes on this final clarity