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Nothing
is a waste of time
if you use the experience wisely.
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To
live means to experience--through doing, feeling, thinking.
Experience
takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we
have.
Over the years, the content of experience will determine the
quality of life.
Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make
is about
how one's time is allocated or invested.
Mihaly
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We
learn by example and by direct experience because
there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Malcolm
Gladwell
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If
you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that
every experience develops some latent force within you,
you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your
circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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People
are wise in proportion, not to their experience,
but to their capacity for experience.
George
Bernard Shaw
One thorn of experience is worth
a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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I
have but one lamp by which my feet are guided;
and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way
of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick
Henry |
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| A
Zen master was once asked, "What is the key to
happiness?"
He
answered, "Good judgment."
"How
do I gain good judgment?" he was questioned.
"Experience,"
was the reply.
"How
then do I get experience?" the student further
probed.
"Bad
judgment," were his final words.
Christina
Feldman
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Often
I feel I go to some distant region
of the world to be reminded of
who I
really am.
There is no mystery about why
this should be so.
Stripped of your
ordinary surroundings, your friends,
your
daily routines, . . . You are forced
into direct experience.
Such direct
experience inevitably makes you aware
of who it
is that is having the experience.
That’s not always comfortable,
but it is always
invigorating.
Michael
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I
think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives.
But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are.
Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis
Miguel
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But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis |
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Be brave. Take risks.
Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho |
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert
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We should come home from
adventures,
and perils, and discoveries every day
with new experience and character.
Henry
David Thoreau |
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One
of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that,
on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either
intellect or fortune.
William
Edward Hartpole Lecky
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest
one's own development.
To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of
one's life.
It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
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Experience
is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont,
or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It
is a matter
of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the
significant thing,
of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and
coordinating.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what
happens to you.
Aldous
Huxley
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It is
not how much you know about life but how you live your life
that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the
mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In
a
world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before--
human experience--is as sure and reliable as anything of which we
know.
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The further
one advances in experience, the closer one comes
to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience,
the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical
value.
Johann
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Strong and well-constituted people digest their
experiences--deed and misdeeds--
just as they digest their meats, even when they have some tough
morsels to swallow.
Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
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Experience
is how life catches up with us and
teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy
Collins |
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Nothing
ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb
is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats |
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What one has not experienced one will never
understand in print.
Isadora Duncan |
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not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life
is an experience.
Ralph
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What
is most necessary for people and what is given us in great
abundance,
are experiences, especially experiences of the
forces within us. This is our
most essential food, our most
essential wealth. If we consciously receive
all this
abundance,
the universe will pour into us what is called life in
Judaism,
spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power
in Taoism.
Jacob
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Experience is what really
happens to you in the long run;
the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter |
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A
lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some
disparage it.
And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they
have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from
these
experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the
possibilities in what some people call "the game of
life." When
we've "been there" and "done that," we can
have as good of an
idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is
certainly an excellent teacher!
John Marks
Templeton
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