Quote Origin: Experience Is What You Get While Looking For Something Else

Mary Pettibone Poole? John Lennon? Randy Pausch? William Lundigan? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A clever saying states that experience in life is obtained indirectly. Here are two versions: (1) Experience is what you get while looking for something else.(2) Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. This saying has …