Quotes About Learning

You see your competition as a learning source, as friends who can keep you sharp and teach you where your weaknesses are.

In addition, as you openly, honestly share what you're learning with others, you may be surprised to find that negative labels or perceptions others may have of you tend to disappear. Those you teach will see you as a changing, growing person, and will be more inclined to be helpful and supportive as you work, perhaps together, to integrate the Seven Habits into your lives.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow.

Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

First, I would recommend that you not "see" this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

Unless we learn from living, how are we going to keep from doing the same things- making the same mistakes, struggling with the same problems- week after week?

Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person's character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual can effectively solve problems, maximize opportunities, and continually learn and integrate other principles in an upward spiral of growth. They are also habits of effectiveness because they are based on a paradigm of effectiveness that is in harmony with a natural law, a principle I call the

there are times to teach and times not to teach.

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography

he periodically set aside an entire week to unplug for reading and reflection, a Think Week. He also developed a penchant for reading biographies; at one point he told Brent Schlender of Fortune, "It's amazing how some people develop during their lives

If a person of your intelligence and competence and commitment disagrees with me, then there must be something to your disagreement that I don't understand, and I need to understand it. You have a perspective, a frame of reference I need to look at." Nonprotective interaction developed, and an unusual culture was born.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others. Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

a goal of a book a month, then a book every two weeks, then a book a week. "The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

cuando examinamos este don en el contexto de la autoadministración efectiva, comprendemos que por lo general no es el esfuerzo dramático, visible, que se realiza hasta el límite de nuestras fuerzas una vez en la vida, el que procura un éxito duradero. El poder se adquiere aprendiendo a usar ese gran don en las decisiones que tomamos día tras día.

The body, the heart, the mind, and the spirit. The essence of these needs is captured in this phrase "to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

pages. He did not seek credit for the principles; he sought to teach the principles, to make them accessible.

Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.

An understanding of the principle of our own growth enables us to search out correct principles with the confidence that the more we learn, the more clearly we can focus the lens through which we see the world. The principles don't change; our understanding of them does.