#inexperience

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#experience #inexperience #open-mindeness #perspective #point-of-view

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#life #life

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#everything #how #ignorant #inexperienced #know

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#bridge #inexperience #mistakes #usual #wisdom

Sam, you need experts on this, and I love you, but—” “I’m so new I have that new-car smell about me? ↗

— Lish McBride

#love

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

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. ↗

— Mark Warner

#business #entire #entire life #entrepreneur #finished

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#immaturity #inexperience #education

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#any #anybody #been #beginning #commanded

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

#aside #astronaut #astronauts #could #done