"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."

Experience, Government, Learning, Value

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."

Exlpore more Experience quotes

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

Karl Shapiro, American Poet

Experience, Poetry

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

Eva Longoria, American Actress

Experience, Time, Sexuality

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

Experience, Nature, Facts, Living

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Experience, Mistake, Humor, Life, Embarrassment

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

Karl Liebknecht, German Politician

Experience, Forget

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Failure, Success, Foundation

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

Experience, War

"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Experience, Men, Truth, Persecution

"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

Celine Dion, Canadian Musician

Experience, Life, Heart, Rest

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Experience, Moment, Life, Memory, Identity

Explore more quotes by Elliot Richardson

"This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades."

History, Power, People

"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?"

Legal, Work, Policy, Effort

"They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case."

Heaven, Open, Years

"I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes."

Life, Thought, Attitude, Day

"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin."

President,

"If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe."

Flaws,

"For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common."

People, Concern, Responsibility, State

"If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power."

Power, Being, Effect

"People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism."

People, Apathy, Cynicism, Deep

"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."

Chance, Conviction, First, Presidency