Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.
Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.
First year in the league, it's going to be difficult.
We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.
I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
