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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the read more
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!
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
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Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
