Real World Experience Quotes

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

There are so many things which you do not have to consider if you are developing and studying a theory in a classroom. It is useful to deal with theories in developing youthful minds, for later they will deal with facts and profit by what they have learned of other men's thoughts, but it is quite different to be faced with actual situations that have to be met in one way or another in a given period of time.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

I want someone in the White House who's had a life.

I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

What you learned on the streets of Brooklyn will be a damn sight more helpful to your president than anything you learned at Harvard.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

I've learned that certain things are much harder than when you write about them in a book.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you're 16 years old. Most kids don't know what they want to do. How could they? They haven't lived in the real world yet.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.