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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

You have to be able to appreciate who you are.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.