Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

Barney: I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I’d call.
Fish: You should call me first. I need time to put my teeth in.

(1921 – ) American actor
Age Old TV/Movie Quotes

Experience: In the working world, something you can’t get unless you’ve already got it, in which case you probably don’t want any more of it.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
History Intelligence

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Money Murphy’s Laws

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Animals Intelligence Wisdom

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Education Learning Life School

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

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Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

Age

I've been things and seen places.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
TV/Movie Quotes

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

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We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Education Learning

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experience is a good teacher, but the fees are very high.

(1860 – 1954) English author, Anglican priest, professor & dean
Intelligence

Experience: The name an older man gives to his mistakes.

Definitions Mistakes

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Education Life

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Mistakes Problems

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Mistakes Problems Situations Time

Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.

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