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Experience

Most people gain a wide range of experience and expertise in life whatever their profession. Whether you are a teacher who has a sense of fulfillment when your student excels, or a financial advisor such as Mark Shaber Fisher Investments who enjoys helping people plan for their future, your expertise and experience can be instrumental in helping others realize their goals and full potential.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country; ... but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.--Mildred White Struven
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.--Pete Seeger
Every child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.--Chinese Proverb (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde
Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant
Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design)
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.--Anne Bradstreet (Meditations Divine and Moral)
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding.-- Anthony Hope
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.--Ansel Adams (in Older & Wiser, ed. by Hofmayer)
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences--and luck. But if you have the same experiences as everybody else, you're unlikely to look in a different direction.--Steve Jobs
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.--Henry Ford
The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Professor at the Breakfast Table)
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.--Francis Bacon
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.--Denis Waitley
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.--John Locke (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding)
Nothing becomes real till it is experienced - Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life is illustrated by it.--John Keats (letter to George and Georgina Keats, May 3, 1891)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.--James Russell Lowell
People say that what we're all seeking in life is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experience on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually fee the rapture of being alive.--Joseph Campbell
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.--Eleanor Roosevelt
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.--Max Frisch
Technology ... the knack of arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.--Max Frisch (Home Faber, 1957)
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.--John Stuart Mill
There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.--Elie Wiesel
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.--Josh Billings
Unless the knowledge gained from experience is reconditioned in each new situation, it is a rigid and a dangerous guide.--Blanche H. Dow ("Roads and Vistas" Meditations for Women)
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.--Ursula K. LeGuin
We can learn from experience if we are ready to adapt that experience to changed conditions.--J. C. Masterman (The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits on a hot stove-lid; he will never sit on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit on a cold one anymore.--Mark Twain
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.--Isak Dinesen ("The Monkey" Seven Gothic Tales)
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.--Margaret Mead and Rhonda Metraux
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.--Thich Nhat Hahn
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.--Bergen Evens
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.--Robert South

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