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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!

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai E. Stevenson,
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.
Ian E. Wilson
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
What you know is just a point of departure. So let’s move!
Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
There is glory in a great mistake
Nathalia Crane, Writer and Poet
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
Wordsworth
Failures are but mileposts on the road to success.
Italian Proverb
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
Spanish Proverb
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
Think about the impact of today's decisions, for tomorrow is much longer than today.
Don Raiff, Economist
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
I don’t avoid pain by not remembering something; I try to remember.... Memory is empowering, and it’s what gives you your sense of continuity in the world.
Melinda W. Popham
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Alfred Sheinwold
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
William Feather, Author and Publisher
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens, Businessman and Author
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
Weston H. Agor
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
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