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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) keywords: actions, experiment, life , timid

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) keywords: days, know, much, never, teach, which , years

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

by Benjamin Franklin (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: dear, experience, fools, keeps, learn, other, school , will

John W. Gardner

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

by John W. Gardner (Educator, American , born in 1912) keywords: art, drawing, eraser, life , without

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

by Andre Gide (Novelist, French , born in 1869) keywords: again, back, been, before, beginning, everything, going, keep, listens, nobody, over, said , since

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

by Helen Keller (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: ambition, character, experience, inspired, soul, success , suffering

Soren Kierkegaard

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

by Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Danish , born in 1970) keywords: backwards, forward, life, lived, must , understood

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

by Karl Kraus (Writer, Austrian , born in 1874) keywords: aside, cannot, exhaust, experiences, inheritance, miser, puts, savings, which , wisdom

Experience is a great teacher.

by John Legend (Musician, American , born in 1978) keywords: experience, great , teacher

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

by Ralph Marston (Athlete, American , born in 1907) keywords: attitude, excellence , skill

John Stuart Mill

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

by John Stuart Mill (Philosopher, English , born in 1970) keywords: experience, flavor, fought, life, protected, risked , sheltered

Every moment is an experience.

by Jake Roberts (Celebrity, American , born in 1955) keywords: every, experience , moment

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

by Auguste Rodin (Sculptor, French , born in 1840) keywords: experience, nothing, time, use, waste , wisely

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

by Esa-Pekka Salonen (Musician, Finnish , born in 1958) keywords: experience, modern, performance , piece

Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

by Friedrich Schiller (Dramatist, German , born in 1759) keywords: beauty, education, experience , key

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

by Pete Seeger (Musician, American , born in 1919) keywords: between, difference, education, experience, fine, get, know, print , read

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: carries, cat, learn, learns, man, other, something, tail , way

Sanford I. Weill

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

by Sanford I. Weill (Businessman, American , born in 1933) keywords: experiences, our, product , think

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: experience, get, nothing , thing

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: experience, give, mistakes, name, our , simply

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