"Life
is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Experience
is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter
how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be."
-- Napoleon Hill
"Take
time to gather up the past so that you will be able to
draw from your experiences and invest them in the future."
-- Jim Rohn
"Develop
wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and
learning everything you can from every call." --
Brian Tracy
"Don't
let the learning from your own experiences take too long.
If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years,
I would suggest that's long enough!" -–
Jim Rohn
"For
years I have been accused of making snap judgments.
Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound
military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too
flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study."
-– George S. Patton
"As
we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
-- James A. Froude
"I've
come to believe that all my past failure and frustration
were actually laying the foundation for the understandings
that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
-- Anthony Robbins
"It
is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success;
they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study,
advice, and example could never have taught them so well
as failure has done." -- Samuel
Smiles
"Building
a deck is NOT as hard as you think! I've watched
TV personality Bob Vila do it many times, and he is a
regular 'do-it-yourselfer' just like you, except that
he has knowledge, skill, an unlimited budget and a large
staff of experts." --
Dave Barry
"The
good times we put in our pocket. The hard times we put
into our heart." -- Les
Brown
"Life
is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection
of experiences and their intensity." -– Jim
Rohn
"Mistakes
are painful when they happen, but years later a collection
of mistakes is what is called experience." -- Denis
Waitley
"It's
easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school.
It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you."
-– Jim Rohn
"One
mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and
over again will." -- Harvey
Mackay
"It
is not well to make great changes in old age." -- Charles
Haddon Spurgeon
"It
gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They
have been over the road that all of us must travel and
know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level
and easy." – Plato
"Judgment
comes from experience, and great judgment comes from bad
experience." -- Robert
Packwood
"Trust
your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your
own instead of someone else's." -–
Billy Wilder
"The
next time it begins to rain...lie down on your belly,
nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye
view of how raindrops fall...The sight of hundreds of
blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano
keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world."
-- Malcolm Margolin
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