Practical Experience Quotes:

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Guides, Practicals, Practical Experience

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

- Arthur Cohn

topic: Integrity, Marketing, Sony, Practical Experience

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.223

topic: Educational, Knowledge, Understanding, Knowledge Experience, Practical Experience

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

- Maria Montessori

topic: Two, Intellectual, Essentials, Manuals, Practical Experience

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

- Hyman Rickover

source: Address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

topic: Practical Experience

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Math, Practical Experience, Effective Teacher

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.

- Deng Xiaoping

source: Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

topic: Party, Blow, Assessment, Cadre, Ferrets

I think the practical experience and the relationships that I developed over the last 16 years, the president-elect [Donald Trump] sees it as an asset to moving his agenda and moving the country forward.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.dailyjournal.net

topic: Country, Moving, Thinking, Practical Experience

I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Source: www.english.illinois.edu

topic: Sports, Writing, Mean, Practical Experience

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

- Simon van der Meer

topic: Feelings, Able, Fields, Practical Experience

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, Training, May, Practical Experience

To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than... temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.

- Reinhard Heydrich

source: Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.

topic: Views, East, Finals, Emigration, Evacuation

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Character, Vision, World, Practical Experience, Regions

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Gratitude, Strong, Grateful, Purifying, Practical Experience

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

- Masanobu Fukuoka

topic: Law, Needs, Pieces, Practical Experience

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Spiritual, Never Forget, Practical Experience, Spiritual Experience

Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Book, Practical Experience, Spiritual Experience

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

- Alan Moore

topic: Book, Writing, People, Practical Experience