Quotes About Learning

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

I was lucky in my early years to play for a Karnataka team that was trying to forge itself into a strong side, and they were years of fun and learning. In the Indian team, I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era when India played some of its finest cricket at home and abroad.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

Ich weiß, dass ich weit unter deinem Niveau bin – aber es ist komisch, das macht mir nix. Ich mag sogar, wenn du mich verbesserst. Schließlich ist das ja dein Beruf. Zum Beispiel hast du mir das Reisen beigebracht, du hast mir Sachen gezeigt, die ich nie bemerkt hätte, ich wär' gar nicht auf die Idee gekommen. Unsereins nimmt sich nicht die Zeit dazu. Wir merken gar nicht, daß wir leben!

Knowledge is but a painful effort wasted, A bitter drowning in a bitter sea.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

We therefore conclude that cost overrun has not decreased over time. Cost overrun today is in the same order of magnitude as it was ten, thirty or seventy years ago. If techniques and skills for estimating costs and avoiding cost overrun in transport infrastructure projects have improved over time, this does not show in the data. No learning seems to take place in this important and highly costly sector of public and private decision making.

Projects are often started by jumping straight to a solution, even a specific technology. That's the wrong place to begin. You want to start by asking questions and considering alternatives. At the outset, always assume that there is more to learn. Start with the most basic question of all: Why?

As with reference-class forecasting, the big hurdle to black swan management is overcoming uniqueness bias. If you imagine that your project is so different from other projects that you have nothing to learn from them, you will overlook risks that you would catch and mitigate if you instead switched to the outside view.

Second, there's a problem with experience—the other half of experiri. If you are building a nuclear power plant, chances are that you haven't done much of that before for the simple reason that few have been built and each takes many years to complete, so opportunities to develop experience are scarce.

We're good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we're terrible at getting things right the first time.

Cost underestimation and overrun have not decreased over the past seventy years. No learning seems to take place; • Cost underestimation and overrun cannot be explained by error and seem to be best explained by strategic misrepresentation, namely lying, with a view to getting projects started.

and experience. Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

As the old Latin saying goes, "Repetitio est mater studiorum"—"Repetition is the mother of learning." A good plan is one that meticulously applies experimentation or experience. A great plan is one that rigorously applies both.

Men, as they acquire experience, lose the faculties that might enable them to turn it to account: it is not so with times: the stock of wisdom acquired by ages is a stock transmitted through a vast number of generations, from men in the perfection of their faculties to others also in the perfection of their faculties.