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Experiential Learning Quotes

    “I know a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and he learned 40 percent more about cats than the man who didn’t.” ~ Mark Twain

      “Don’t just learn something from every experience. Learn something positive.” ~ Allen Neuharth, USA Today Founder

        “Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

          “There’s only one thing more painful than than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” ~ Archibald MacLeish, Poet

            “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” ~ Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

              “The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination… in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk.” ~ A. Alvarez

                “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

                  “The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.” ~ Henry Ford

                    Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

                      Ah yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. ~ The Lion King

                        “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down… So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.” ~ Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity

                          “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” ~ Frank Herbert

                            “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” ~ Mark Jenkins

                              “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller

                                “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson

                                  “Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.” ~ Jim Rohn

                                    “All great speakers were bad speakers first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson