Inexperience Quotes - Page 3

• We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Media, Democracy

  "Today's Power Play: Bloomberg Bid Would Help Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

  A. J. Liebling

  Cynicism, Products

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Design, Age, Able

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• ... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Real, Ignorance

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  Tea Obreht

  Encouragement, Taken, Thinking

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• I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

  Hippocrates

  Character, Men, Peculiar

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

  William Feather

  Successful, Needs, Youth

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, Virtue, Prostitution

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• The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Technology, Hands

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.businessinsider.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Years, People

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.fastcompany.com. November 26, 2012.

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• When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Father, Discovery

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.101

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• They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Succeed

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.415

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• Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

  John McCain

  Challenges, President, Would Be

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Character, Son

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• [Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair.

  Megyn Kelly

  Party, Government, Israel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Glasses, Safety, Aviation

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• Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Opportunity

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Mind, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.94

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• It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Looks, Rising

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• I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Inheritance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

  David Schwimmer

  Fake, Innocence

  Source: collider.com

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• In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Passion, Heart

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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