#mist

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#learning-from-mistakes #experience

Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news. ↗

— Evan Kuhlman

#pessimistic #life

I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #writing-process #experience

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#failure #learning #mistakes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beat #early-stories-and-other-writings #experience-mistakes-wisdom #jack-kerouac #man

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#experience #failure #learning-from-mistakes #mistakes #richelle

A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear. ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #experience

Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #mistakes #experience

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#experience #humanity #meliorist #optimist #pessimist

Every mistake I make, allows me to see how much more there is to learn. The more wrong turns I take, the less scared I am of making the same ones over again. The more lessons I go through, the less I regret adding to this wealth I call experience. The more experience I ultimately enjoy surviving, the less time I realize I have in this lifetime - to learn it all ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#experience