Inexperience Quotes - Page 2

• From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Careers, People

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• I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Regret, Arrogance, Regret Nothing

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Care, World, Youth

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.180

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• Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

  David Cronenberg

  Kids, Trying, Technique

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• The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

  Robertson Davies

  Quality, Way, Influence

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

  Leroy Chiao

  Long, Waiting, Trying

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• I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  People, Criminals, Stuff

  "Giannoulias heads to Argentina to reflect next steps" by Kerry Lester, www.dailyherald.com. January 23, 2011.

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• I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Waiting, Faces, Needs

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• Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

  William Cowper

  Past, Wish, Trying

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.266

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• It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Failure, Ignorance, Character

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library

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• It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

  Colleen McCullough

  Character, Voice, Giving

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• The heart is forever inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Forever, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

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• The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Men, Law

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

  Adora Svitak

  Kids, Giving, Cynical

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• The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Inability, Care

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.85

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• George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience—which is sometimes a great help—and a strong desire to be my very best.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Ignorant, Desire

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• I think you want to do as much as you can for your fans. I take as many opportunities as I can when it comes to media and interviews and autograph sessions and things of that nature - as long as it's not interfering with the schedule and how much inexperience you can get on the track. When it starts to cut into that, it's kind of defeating the purpose. So that's where I draw the line.

  John Wes Townley

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.usatoday.com. July 30, 2013.

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• I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

  Dora Russell

  Sex, Fighting, Men

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• Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

  Harry Chapin

  Writing, Kids, Guitar

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Writing, Maturity

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• I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.

  James Madison

  Strong, Organization, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.228

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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• Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

  Wendy Kopp

  Embrace, Assets

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• It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fear, Adventure, Pride

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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