A fearful situation is a challenge you have been given to make you stronger.
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Quotes tagged ‘Experience’
Often our greatest teachers come in the form of people we love who eventually subject us to extreme pain. With pain comes an opportunity for growth; it is the catalyst for evolution. When the pain of staying the same becomes unbearable, we are forced to break self sabotaging habits & adjust our choi…
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Paradoxically, vividness of description and detail here comes at the expense of realism. To put it simply, no one besides a writer—a professional noticer—notices this much, and certainly not in a near instantaneous time frame; not in a “taking in.” There is no reason to. This style of writing, which…
As with writing, the silence says as much, or more, than the word.
Description is, in fact, more useful for what it says about the noticer than the noticed.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books . . .
Learn from mistakes, but never regret you made them. We make mistakes because we dare to step outside our comfort zone.
We cannot change a pain-filled past. What we can do is change how if affects us. We can change how we see it and how we use it.
Beloveds, the best teacher you will ever have is experience.
The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe
We're lucky they are even interested in the idea in the first place. We got a show about nothing. With no story. What do you think, they're up there going, ‘maybe we should give those two guys, who have no experience and no idea, more money’?
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
You've got to be a beginner before you can be anything else.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact the best, most skillful pilot has the most ex…
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, throught it, in it, and above.
After a bad experience or breakup, thank your lucky stars and move on.