Learning Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Abby Johnson, Johnny Winter, Regina King, Rick Warren, Erwin McManus and many others.
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
Part of being a former abortion clinic worker is learning how to deal with your past sin.
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child – it’s ok to make mistakes.
the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
To endeavor all one’s days to fortify one’s mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. –Terri Mitchell
Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
I began learning how to dance when I was 3 and a half years old.
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.
There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it’s bloom, or it’s garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
You ain’t learnin’ nothin’ when you’re talkin’.
People who are cocky and arrogant say, ‘I know that’ and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,’ How good am I at that?’ and seek to improve
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift… the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Don’t raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
I’m learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You’ve got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it’s totally predictable.
Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.
Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.
Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had ‘Loneliness’ and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day. ‘Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here’s Matt researching in aisle six of his local library’. A few hours of that and they’d go home.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
I, myself, have had many failures and I’ve learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren’t stretching your imagination.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and “solutions” often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey… I just couldn’t get enough.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
All learning is derived from things previously known.
Quality broadband service is key to growing our economy, and learning, competing, and succeeding in today’s digital world.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
There’s no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It’s time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won’t learn anything new that way.
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
To learn is to change.
Learning that someone is gay, queer, trans, doesn’t tell you much by itself. They could be any kind of person aside from that particular slice of identity.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.
By the time you’re 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can’t change; you learn to be yourself.
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
When we’re anxious we tend to shrink into a defeatist position, curving our shoulders or backs. Learning to stand straight, take a breath and speak slowly helps to project a sense of confidence, relieving some of that anxiety.
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
As Benjamin Franklin said, ‘Those things that hurt, instruct.’ It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
It’s exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I’m not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don’t follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what’s important to them.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Man’s most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
I’m not crazy. But I am different. I’m still learning about myself.
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.
My illusions didn’t have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
Every solution has a problem.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
If you want learning, you must work for it.
Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.
love of learning is the most necessary passion … in it lies our happiness. It’s a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
We should test prudently; not profligately.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
I’ve had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
We learn…
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
Unless I’m wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I’m-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what’s most beautiful about you and to hide what’s less beautiful.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
Learning is fine, but you also have to win – you only have one career.
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
[on education] It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it’s just a case of moving on and learning from it.
It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.
When you face adversity . . . don’t’ ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
A song like ‘Heartbreaker,’ it’s a song about learning – it’s not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It’s more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks.
Deadwood did not kill itself!
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Don’t just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it’s another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
I’ve found that embracing the things that make me a little strange and different from other people, and learning to love that, makes me feel beautiful and fashionable every day.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
The day I think I’ve achieved everything will be the day I fail. There is no end to learning, and I want to continue being a student.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.
To teach is to learn twice.
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.
In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.
The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I’ve worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
I’d always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.
We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.
A progeny of learning.
I didn’t have time to be anybody’s muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal – otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don’t do well, in the hope of learning.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I’m wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
My biggest thing is, I’m learning what it’s like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.
I’m changing every day as far as this rap thing. I’m learning new things. I’m getting bigger by the day.
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories – stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we’re all connected; we’re all in this together.
Neurologically, I’m a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I’m sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty – it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
They know enough who know how to learn.
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
[In my home workshop,] generally I’m mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.”
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Eventually, while researching, you’ll learn something you didn’t want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The good news is that sometimes, learning all the facts can make for a much more interesting story than you originally had in mind.
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Successful software always gets changed.
I haven’t been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I’m learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.
On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like telling the world there’s no Santa Claus.
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
I was open to taking risks and learning from my mistakes.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
In software design, it’s all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.
I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.
The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
I liked learning things. I liked solving problems and doing my homework. I realize a lot of kids don’t like that, but I always enjoyed going to school.
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. … Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
That experience with ‘Rent’ went by so fast. I was younger. I didn’t even really know what opening night was. And now I’m thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt… And I’m realizing that I’m actually a part of that, so I’m learning to take it in, ’cause so often I shrug it away.
What we want… is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that’s the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
You never stop learning in F1. It’s the typical thing that all drivers say, but it’s absolutely true. But also, apart from driving, you learn a bit about the political side of F1. People don’t realise how much there is outside the car.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child’s education unless he also knows how to train a child.
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
Example is leadership.
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
The greatest failure is the failure to try.
High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student… but I think it’s learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice – my voice.
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
It’s important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It’s essential to be innovative when they are not.
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Learning itself, received into a mind
By nature weak, or viciously inclined,
Serves but to lead philosophers astray,
Where children would with ease discern the way.
By nature weak, or viciously inclined,
Serves but to lead philosophers astray,
Where children would with ease discern the way.
Of course, there are ups and downs in cricket always, but that’s how you learn. I am too young, and what I constantly do is learn from my seniors. They have been in tough situations, and they know how to tackle them. I just keep learning.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I’m learning the value of saying no. That’s very important.
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
You have to think for your team-mates and give them positive response. Whatever happens as a captain you have to take the responsibility. Backing my team-mates and supporting them was the biggest learning.
I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don’t work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.
Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens – I wasn’t intimidated by it.
If you’re not learning, then you’re stagnant. If you’re stagnant, then you’re not evolving and the business isn’t progressing.
For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.
One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don’t hone your craft.
You discover yourself through the research of your work.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
I’m open for possibilities. I’m open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I’m always eager to learn. I’m never going to close my mind from learning.
I feel I have learnt a lot on the sets of ‘Beyond The Clouds,’ and it will be a life-long learning for me.
Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Literacy is much more than an educational priority – it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Everything is a learning experience, both good and bad that happen to you. You take what happens and learn from it. That’s how I look at everything, the good and bad. You learn about it, and you improve.
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
People will listen when they’re ready to listen and not before. Don’t waste time with people who want to argue. They’ll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it’s seldom easy.
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Have I a secret about playing the piano? It’s a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable – and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
Sometimes it’s smart to be scared.
A leader these days needs to be a host – one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.
I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It’s not safe for kids.
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind’s eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
When it comes to choreography practice, the rest of the five members learn from the dance instructor while Rap Monster and I are excluded from the group and end up learning the moves in the corner.
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.
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This is quotes copyright В© By Pumpkin Limited
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can’t feed your vision.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
I’ve studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand – or at least to learn to understand – the beauty of stone.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.
I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
My kids miss me when I’m away, but I don’t mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq… it’s such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It’s changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose – the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Learning is a process not an event.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list’ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, ‘Where’s the fun? Where’s the glamour?’
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.
A watched child never learns.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
If you wait until you’re really sure, you’ll never take off the training wheels.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Every learner has special needs.
The big thing is, it’s about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, this guy can’t hit a curveball; this guy can’t hit an off-speed pitch.’ But it’s about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.
I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Singaporeans are food people, period. My first memories, let alone of food, were of sitting on the floor of the kitchen with my mother, watching her pound aromatics to make sambal and later on, learning to stuff wonton pastry.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I’d known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn’t holding my breath.
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
The early years were more about learning than about acting.
I had to carry on my father’s work, which was a big challenge.
I had to carry on my father’s work, which was a big challenge.
While we teach, we learn.
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
Some infrastructure projects clearly require massive, coordinated investment – interstate highways or a new trans-Hudson tunnel, for instance. Others don’t have to. We should be unafraid of pilot projects and learning.
If this validates anything, it’s that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren’t allow their voice.
But let me say this about learning experiences: they’re weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
I like learning. I’ve been studying Japanese for years now, but it’s really hard.
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
I’m learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don’t settle for mediocre verse.
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
It’s very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you’re constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Question authority; but, raise your hand first.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
I really love learning and working long hours.
Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
I just feel like I’m becoming a better person. My music is just getting better. Learning the game better, learning how to move, learning how to create – everything’s just growing.
There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.
I am learning the importance of living in the moment.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
I think it’s so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who’s bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
It is better to learn late than never.
Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
If we’re all on the same page, no one’s reading the whole book.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and – even more surprising – it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I’m learning how to do basic wiring.
There is no algorithm for creativity.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.
Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.
In order to be big, you have to think big.
If you think small, you’re going to be small.
If you think small, you’re going to be small.
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
And on that yes the future world depends.
Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don’t take things for granted.
I’m gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I’ve got this beautiful mind and it’s going to die, and it’ll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I’ve ever had I’ve written down, and it’s all there on paper. And I won’t be gone; it’ll be there.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn’t think reading was cool. I’m trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
There’s more learning than is taught in books.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; learn from it & don’t make it again.
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
I can’t sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton’s genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.
When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.
If you didn’t like somebody, you just let ’em know it, and hopefully that would square ’em away. Not only would they critique me, get on my case, but basically it was that kind of relationship. It was always a learning, team-building relationship.
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value
Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.
I have to say I’ve made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It’s never too late to learn.
When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today’s events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I’m writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training…not just a few.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
In spite of some bad experiences, I’m a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
Be a harsh critic of your own wins.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
The thing about school is that if you’re forced into learning stuff, you’re not going to be into it.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the ‘fantasy woman’ is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don’t think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.
My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
No Child Left Behind’s fourth-grade gains aren’t learning gains, they’re testing gains. That’s why they don’t last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
America’s best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Imitation is being rewarded. They’re learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression – it’s a means to a lifestyle.
Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does.
Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can’t see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success
