Quotes About Learning

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. FRANCIS BACON, "OF STUDIES

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Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.   Ã¢â'¬â€Douglas Busch

Turn bad experiences into something good.

I aim to fight as if I am right, and listen as if I am wrong—and to teach my people to do the same thing.

Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

Yeah, I should be in college, Mom, but I'm not. The world is my classroom, and one day I'll write a book, and that will be my degree.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

While it takes three years or more to get through seminary, it can take you ten years to get over it.