Quotes About Experience

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

It is better to love and lose then never love -

Ye'll try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

It is far more common to fight your way through terrible software designs than it is to enjoy the pleasure of working with a good one.

Os padrôes facilitam a reutilização de ideias e compomentes, recrutam pessoas com experiência considerável, encapsulam boas ideis e conectam os compomentes. Entretanto, o processo de criação de padôes pode, ás vezes, ser muito longo para que o mercado fique á espera deles, e alguns padrôes acabam se desviando das necessidades reais das pessoas a quem eles pretendem servir.

As you mature in your profession, your error rate should rapidly decrease towards the asymptote of zero.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

To say that Hegel is an idealist is to say that, at every turn, he argues that the world is thoroughly knowable, and it is nothing "beyond" the realm of conscious experience.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

One of the problems with anecdotes is that they tend to be provided by the satisfied customers, not the unsatisfied or dead ones.

When presented with this evidence, believers in the "hot hand" are likely to reject it because they "know better" from experience.

It is not that hard to understand why most of us believe strongly in things that are palpably not true. We have a natural propensity to see causal connections where there are none and our beliefs are constantly reinforced by people we like and trust. For many people, one vivid and emotionally salient experience validated by a single neighbor or shopkeeper trumps a thousand randomized, double-blind, controlled scientific experiments.

By the time she reached her apartment in Clear Lake

Robert Charles Wilson

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

I leaped headlong into the Sea and thereby became better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and…took tea and comfortable advice.

You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your job if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the advantage of others.

the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character—the first transformation on the way to mastery.

Your most creative years are generally in your late twenties and on into your forties. You can learn what you need through books, your own practice, and occasional advice from others, but the process is hit-and-miss.