Quotes About Learning

Are you learning to succeed from your results or are you letting your results beat you up?

Experience helps you understand what works and what doesn't. And (personally), I think it has more to do with just wanting to continue to learn on and off the ice. … Whether it's, you know, skills on the ice or trying to learn how to be a better teammate, better leader, better friend, you name it.

Challenges to existing views are generally uncomfortable. Indeed, for most people and organizations, coming face to face with a mismatch between what they believed and what they have just experienced is difficult. These people and organizations will do anything to reduce the nature of the surprise.

Saying what people failed to do has no role in understanding 'human error.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

my mother chose to teach me that sometimes gratification has to be delayed.

No one knows all that there is to know. (This despite Mark Twain's observation that between him and Albert Einstein, they encompassed all human knowledge. As he put it, "Einstein knows all that there is to know, and I know the rest.") The task is to learn as much as you can about as much as you can; the great disease of mankind is ignorance. With

The great disease of mankind is ignorance.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.

Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and white, and green And every kind of colour. Which will you read? Come on; O do read something; they're so wise. I tell you all the wisdom of the world Is waiting for you on those shelves; and yet You sit and gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, And listen to the silence.

My eyes were on the game as the Winter Hawks moved the puck into our zone. I wanted to learn as much as I could about their offense. I wanted to know how they moved the puck around. Playing or not playing, I always look for things that give away shooters' secrets.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

When people are very young they see animals as equals, even as kin. That humans are different, unique and superior to all other species - this they have to be taught.

Later in my life I would come to understand that history books are the least reliable witnesses

And if we know how to light a fire, why do we carry tinder around with us?" Because you're humans," the little one explained serenly. "You're stupid.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them.

A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.

So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections.

The time we take out, whether it is to do mathematics or music, or to read Plato or Jane Austen, is time to be cherished.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Why should I waste my time going to college and teaching those goddam professors what I know?

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.