"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
― George Washington
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Experience
― George Washington
More From George Washington
- "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
- "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
- "War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."
More In Experience
- "Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the hidden places."― Jeanette Winterson
- "It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage – our universal awareness."― Henry Reed
- "The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."― Arthur Miller