On Experience
by Lee on March 9, 2007
Here are some favorites:
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
– Barry LePatner
When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance improves.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
– James M. Barrie
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
– Alfred Sheinwold
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day.
Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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