Quotes About Growth

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

Experience precedes understanding.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.