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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

Accessing prior knowledge; transferring knowledge beyond the situation in which it was learned. Use what you learn!

As important as your past is related to your current performance, it is not nearly as important as how you see your future.
Denis Waitley
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg,
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
Joan Chittister
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman Rickover
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W. C. Magee
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Edison
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Plato
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
It is from the fond memories of our past that we gather courage to face the future.
Elizabeth Andrews
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
Look back to learn how to look forward.
Joe Girard
Life can be real rough . . . you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.
Marie Osmond
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.
Randall Cunningham, Professional Football Player
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald McLeish
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
William Strong
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