#inexperience

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#america #benefits #full #give #inexperience

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#life #music #self-knowledge #wisdom #experience

Sam, you need experts on this, and I love you, but—” “I’m so new I have that new-car smell about me? ↗

— Lish McBride

#love

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. ↗

— Mark Warner

#business #entire #entire life #entrepreneur #finished

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inevitably #inexperienced #influences #quality #said

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.' ↗

— Karl Rove

#credibility #disaster #good #great #guy

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#depression #fifty #i #inexperienced #loudspeakers

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#experience #inexperience #open-mindeness #perspective #point-of-view

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#bridge #inexperience #mistakes #usual #wisdom