Quotes About Learning

We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires.

Si resuena el Avapiés en mí, como fondo sobre todas las resonancias de mi vida, es por dos razones: Allí aprendí todo lo que sé, lo bueno y lo malo. A rezar a Dios y a maldecirle. A odiar y a querer. A ver la vida cruda y desnuda, tal como es. Y a sentir el ansia infinita de subir y ayudar a subir a todos el escalón de más arriba. Esta es una razón. La otra razón es que allí vivió mi madre. Pero esta razón es mía.

Rahel knew that this had happened because she had been hoping that it wouldn't. She hadn't learned to control her Hopes yet.

Empathy sometimes achieves what scholarship cannot

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

Hay cosas que traen su propio castigo. Son como los dormitorios que tienen armarios empotrados. Pronto todos ellos aprenderían más cosas sobre los castigos. Que los hay de diferentes tamaños. Que algunos son tan grandes como armarios que tuvieran dormitorios empotrados.

Rahel? pasimok?. Džiaugsmas visada baigiasi ašaromis.

There's so much data, but no one really wants to know anything, don't you think?

Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic".65

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know.

She wondered how to un-know certain things

Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

Living is a kind of skill.

We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to catch the problems clean up after them. We are not in the habit of thinking the way the army pilots did as they looked upon their shiny new Model 299 bomber — a machine so complex no one was sure human beings could try it.

If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having, and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we're old? The common view was that these lessons are hard to learn. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

My third answer for becoming a positive deviant: Count something. Regardless of what one ultimately does in medicine—or outside medicine, for that matter—one should be a scientist in the world....If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So

by incorporating feedback from each success and each failure to improve their guesswork.

They believe in practice, not talent.