Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley

Also – it’s not what happens to you that matters as much as what you do with what happens to you.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. – Mick Jagger

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. – Henry Ford

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. – Gen. George S. Patton

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral