Quotes About Learning

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

Until you work backwards from the moments, hours or days before the actual mistake occured, you probably won't see all of the contributing factors and can't learn all of the possible lessons. The more complex the mistake, the further back you'll need to go and the more careful and open-minded you need to be in your own investigation.

Changing a name doesn't change reality. But I withheld judgment. The wise engage all new things with an open mind. I wouldn't learn anything new if I judged them before getting my hands dirty, despite how much more fun judging things with clean hands can be.

It's a shockingly recent notion that work and play should be mutually exclusive things. We learn about ourselves and each other through play, which helps us work together.

an essential part of many martial arts disciplines. Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

The best teachers use entertainment as a way to fuel teaching, not simply to make their students laugh.

In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation, mistakes instruct."[

Experience benefits only those who take the time to learn from it.

Wow, so much to learn!" said Volant the eagle. "Fish-eating bats, pale bats, bats with little ears, bats with long noses, bats with noses that look like leaves… Next thing you know, you're going to tell me there are bats that drink blood like vampires!" "There are those, indeed, as well," said Sully the Leaf-nosed bat.

Photography is something you never master (in terms of being the best.) Photography is just something you do – because you have to.

glazed eyes staring stupid looking at nothing and seeing everything born of and into ignorance what society dictates we consume cattle gathering around learning devices called television

Two aphorisms I advocate and live by: 1) "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." (Actually, this is a common mis-quotation from the source, George Santayana, who wrote specifically in Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense from his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 2) "NO religion can stand up to two words: PROVE IT!" (Source unknown).

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.

What has happened to you in the past matters much less than what you learned from it and how you apply that lesson going forward. What really matters is how you break through.

Just remember it's not the experience that matters—it's what you do with the experience. Nothing

One of the keys to success is taking every experience life brings you and repackaging it in a way that empowers you and helps you move forward.

And the top performers know this, so they make learning a practice.

You can launch your company with tremendous passion for the business. You can execute your vision flawlessly. But if you don't have a plan for learning, you won't be able to keep up with a constantly adjusting market, and you can become irrelevant very quickly.

no matter how bad a situation may seem, we can learn from it and assign a new meaning to it that moves us closer to our goals.

the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER

Mastery of models improves your ability to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.