Some people have nothing but experience.
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.
Words without experience are meaningless.
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
We believe in the wisdom of the front lines.
Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.
