“I never learn anything from listening to myself.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Tag: lessons learned
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“The only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences.” — Seth Godin, Experience and variation
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“Few of us keep accurate records of what we’ve learned as we hobble through life barking our shins in the dark on experiences we’ve already had.” — Harlan Ellison, “The Deadly ‘Nackles’ Affair,” Slippage
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
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“What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he’s already been told twice.” — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool
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“I can’t say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn’t known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn’t know I wanted to know.” — William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways
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“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” — Hunter S. Thompson
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” — Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
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“If a leader cannot admit mistakes, these mistakes will be hidden.” — Frank Herbert, Dune Genesis
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“It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.” — Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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“Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.” — Will Cuppy, “The Hermit’s Emergency Shelf,” How to Be a Hermit